Hi Nikita,
Nikita Popov wrote:
When the silencing operator @ is used, the intention is generally to
silence expected warnings or notices. However, it currently also silences
fatal errors. As fatal errors also abort request execution, the result will
often be a hard to debug white screen of death.
The most recent occurrence which motivated me to write this mail is
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77205, but I've seen this play out multiple
times already.
I would like to propose to change the behavior of @ to only silence
warnings, notices and other low-level diagnostics, but leave fatal errors
intake.
It's always been bizarre to me that @ can silence fatal errors, which
has no practical application and makes using @ to silence a lower-level
error potentially hszardous if its targeted function can also produce a
fatal error.
Obviously, I'd be in favour of fixing this. :)
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Andrea Faulds
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