On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 19:37, Levi Morrison <le...@php.net> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'd like to change the default mode of assertion failures to throw. > The current default is to warn. In my opinion this is a bad strategy: > the engine asserted that something that is expected to be true is not, > so executing further is a bad idea. This leaves throwing or bailing > out. I think throwing an exception is better than bailing out, so > that's what I propose. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
Hello Levi +1 on this one, I use assertions on my local development, and we also have that on `doctrine/coding-standard` ( https://github.com/doctrine/coding-standard/pull/47). I think throwing an exception is indeed a better way to make the most out of it.
