On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 at 21:19, Mark Randall <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I have created a PR that will throw exceptions when using define()
> with invalid types or when trying to redefine.
>
> Trying to redefine a constant or define a bad constant would throw a
> ValueError on the name parameter, trying to pass an unsupported type
> would give a TypeError on the value parameter.
>
> Normal promotions are fairly run of the mill, however for some utterly
> bizarre reason the existing behaviour is to print a notice and not a
> warning as with almost all other functions that are failing.
>
> Is there a good reason not to promote these to exceptions?
>
> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5265
>
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I'm all for it, I wouldn't a lot of code to be affected by it as that code
would be truly broken.

Best regards

George P. Banyard

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