At 02:39 PM 2/8/2002 +0100, Stig S. Bakken wrote:
>On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 14:30, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > At 02:20 PM 2/8/2002 +0100, Stig S. Bakken wrote:
> > >On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 14:14, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > > > At 01:42 PM 2/8/2002 +0100, Stig S. Bakken wrote:
> > > > >On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 13:38, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> > > > > > Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > > > > > > At 09:20 PM 2/8/2002 +0900, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >> Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >>>> Name space BC problem is "bad", since script may misbehave
> > > > > > >>>> without proper error message where to fix.
> > > > > > >>>> It's a bad BC problem since it's harder to fix/notice.
> > > > > > >>>> In some cases, it seems works well while it's not.
> > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > >>> The question is how often does this breakage actually 
> happen in
> > > real
> > > > > > >>> life and not theoretically on the mailing list.
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> Then we have different priority for BC problems :(
> > > > > > >> BC _with_ error is not as bad as BC _without_ error for me.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Theoretically I agree but if BC _without_ error happens very
> > > rarely then
> > > > > > > I don't think it's that bad. In any case, we could always have an
> > > > > > > E_MIGRATION for people migrating.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Great!
> > > > > > I personally prefer to have E_DEBUG, E_INFO and clean up error
> > > > > > level for functions. There about 2300 php_error/zend_error :)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'll happily contribute for it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > E_INFO:
> > > > > >     Error like compatibility info (migration)
> > > > > > E_DEBUG:
> > > > > >     Error useful for debugging script but not appropriate
> > > > > >     for production scripts.
> > > > > > E_NOTICE
> > > > > >     Error that can be a bug in script but may be ingored.
> > > > > > E_WARNING
> > > > > >     Error taht cannot be ignored. (Error must be handled)
> > > > > > E_ERROR
> > > > > >     Fatal error.
> > > > >
> > > > >Good idea.  E_DEBUG may be a good alternative to php_printf().  Heh.
> > > >
> > > > Fine tuning errors is probably a good idea. E_PEDANTIC?
> > >
> > >A lot of errors that are E_NOTICE today would definitely be better off
> > >as E_PEDANTIC.  Undefined array indexes come to mind.  What else?
> > >E_INFO may be a bit vague (and probably attract a lot of "misc"
> > >errors).  What about E_COMPAT for compatibility issues?
> >
> > E_PENDATIC, E_COMPAT, E_NOTICE, E_WARNING, E_ERROR
> > Do you see E_PENDANTIC and E_NOTICE as much different? Can we 
> differentiate
> > between them?
>
>Well, E_PENDANTIC is more specific, its use should be limited to really
>strict warnings, just like in C compilers.  Just move those errors from
>E_NOTICE to E_PEDANTIC and leave the remaining E_NOTICEs as they are.
>Or are you saying you see less point in having E_NOTICE with E_PEDANTIC?

Yeah that's what I meant but I think you're right. We can use E_PENDATIC 
for *really* pedantic messages. It'd be actually interesting to find all 
sorts of places which could do with this.

Andi


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