On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 4:23 AM Rowan Tommins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/11/2021 09:27, Andreas Heigl wrote: > > > >> I see, yes, code that is 100% perfectly tested can get away without > >> the language performing any error checking at all - the behaviour is > >> all guaranteed by the tests. I would be very surprised if even 1% of > >> PHP applications can claim such comprehensive tests. > > > > The topic here was that new code can verify the declaration of a > > property by using tests. That does not need to happen on the language > > level. I was never talking about adding tests for existing code. > > > > For most code bases, even new ones being written from scratch in PHP > 8.0, that level of testing simply doesn't exist, and having the language > tell you "hey, you wrote $this->loger instead of $this->logger" is a > useful feature. And, in a lot of cases, more useful than having the > language say "OK, I've created your dynamic $loger property for you", > which is what currently happens. > What you described there sounds like a warning and not a fatal error. Maybe that's where some of the trepidation is coming from. I know I'm less worried about the deprecation notice and more worried about what happens in PHP 9 when it's a fatal error.
