Re: PHP5 only sure .. E_STRICT?

Michael Wallner wrote: > 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. Same here ... sounds fine. Regards, Stefan