Understood. But given for the entire 5 series it was valid I feel people finding their code randomly breaking now would expect to see it in the documentation somewhere.
Where would you suggest we place it? Given it’s a bug fix, would it still fit here? http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration55.incompatible.php On Jul 18, 2013, at 5:25 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> Much the same as https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49348 since 5.5 >> trying to access an uninitialized property of an object throws a >> notice but isn’t listed anywhere as a change that I can see. > > Read access to uninitialized variable should produce notice, that's how > it was in PHP for very long time. Unfortunately, due to the bug it > didn't in some situations, while it still did in others. In 5.5, this > bug was fixed. Generally, bugfixes do not have special reporting except > for note in the NEWS that the bug has been fixed. But if you think it > needs special mention you can suggest a patch. > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect > SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ > (408)454-6900 ext. 227
