Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > So nobody will use E_DEVELOPMENT or E_NONE or whatever. We can only add > options to PHP that offer choices to developers. If they do not use > them ... what can we do? >
As a regular user of PHP, I like the idea of E_DEVELOPMENT and E_PRODUCTION. They're clear and will do what I would expect them to. Why not change the default php.inis to those values instead? I'm a against E_NONE, though. Now, I understand what a bit mask is, but imagine for a second that I didn't. Imagine that I want no messages except for E_ERROR. As a theoretically less experienced developer, I might assume that I should explicitly turn off all errors except for E_ERROR. What does that get me? error_reporting(E_NONE & E_ERROR). Oops. That doesn't work as I expect it to! Using a '0' makes it painfully obvious that it's not meant to combine with the other predefined constants. 0 is special. 0 doesn't play nicely with others. This is obviously an edge case, and a less experienced developer would hopefully learn very quickly the right way to do it, but I don't like the idea of giving people ammo to shoot at PHP and its wacky E_* constants. -- Tyler Lawson -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
