On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org>wrote:
> Indeed. In C, assert() will abort the program if it is enabled, which > is hard to miss. It is not comparable to the PHP assert() function. ...except PHP's assert() *also* aborts the program if enabled. What am I missing here? > The reasons I don't like assert() are: > > 1. It doesn't throw an exception > 2. It acts like eval() > > We could have a library of PHPUnit-style assertion functions which > throw exceptions and don't act like eval(), I would be fine with that. > Maybe MWAssert::greaterThan( $foo, $bar ) or something. > 1. It's fairly trivial to use assert_options() to make assertions throw exceptions if you really wanted to while developing. 2. Except it's not. Again, you're welcome to give an example where code provided as a string in an assertion is not exactly the same as having the code hardcoded. *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com
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