http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Avoiding-Magic-Constants.aspx
I'm sorry, I could not resist. On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Giovanni Giacobbi <giova...@giacobbi.net>wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:14:05AM -0700, Stas Malyshev wrote: > > Hi! > > > > >use an E_ constant with error_reporting" and not have the current > > >situation where sometimes you use a constant (or constants) and > > >sometimes you use a bare number, depending on what you want to > > >achieve. > > > > What's wrong with using 0? 0 means "nothing", how hard is that? ` > > Nothing wrong in using 0, but it would be much more elegant to > stick to constants all from the same family. Someone already > figured that out: > > $ php -r 'print_r(get_defined_constants());' | grep ' 0' | wc -l > 89 > > Anyway, my opinion is I would like E_NONE in next major release, > and I would also like E_ALL to be extended to include E_DEPRECATED and > E_STRICT, instead of adding a really bogus E_DEVELOPMENT or E_EVERYTHING. > > Please also note that E_* indicates a single error channel, with the > exception of E_ALL and possibly E_NONE if it gets added. I would avoid > adding more E_* constants which don't represent a single channel. I > would find it confusing. > > 2c > > -- > Giovanni Giacobbi > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Nicolas A. Bérard-Nault (nic...@gmail.com)
