On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Sara Golemon wrote: > > > Can we throw an E_NOTICE when foreach targets a reference? (The other > > there's many way to use reference, not only in foreach. don't do > > reference unless u know it's really needed. > > > Sean's not so much referring to his own problem as (like you said) the > solution is a fairly simple matter of following strict coding practices. He's > trying to address the problem of unexperienced developers seeing this behavior > and (wrongly) reporting it as a bug, or worse, assuming PHP is just "broken" > and therefore shouldn't be used. > > That said, I'm not convinved this needs a notice, but I'm certainly not > against it. Perhaps we should split the difference with an E_STRICT.
It *has* to be an E_STRICT because it's something related to language and possible semantic errors. E_NOTICE is not for that. However, I don't think that we should add this, as it's perfectly normal and expected behavior (albeit a bit weird). And indeed, some people might rely on this "feature". Derick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
