Re: PHP5 only sure .. E_STRICT?

Lukas Smith wrote:

Markus Tacker wrote:

So, they say what's E_STRICT will not work in PHP6. What's not may become E_STRICT in future releases of PHP.

No the question was as follows, in the word of Michael: "The key is we would like to know if we can rely that there are no things that throw E_STRICT in a minor version that don't work in a lower minor version" The answer to this question is no, we cannot rely on this. After the obviously heated debate with Marcus we talked in a query in the language of love (also known as german) and we got to a solution that I think is workable for us.

After thinking more about the issue yesterday, I must admit, that limiting E_STRICT changes to major versions is really not reasonable for PHP development and it could cause a development deadlock.

All E_STRICT notices would start with an easily parseable string that defines the version in which the given E_STRICT notice was added. This would make it possible for us to provide a filter function that people could use in customer error handlers that would enable them to filter out any E_STRICT error messages they wish to ignore based on the lowest PHP version they want to care about.

Marcus just introduced me to this idea and I think it's actually a quite good compromise. Regards, -- Michael