Johannes Schlüter wrote on 21/11/2014 16:13:
Hi,
On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 16:48 +0900, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
How about use INI until PHP8?
No. php.ini needs less settings not more. Especially not for language
things. This makes a mess for creating portable code. ze1 compat mode
was a fault as were other ini settings we had. Let's not go there,
again.
I agree; the runtime environment is not the right scope to set such options.
I do wonder if it would be useful to make more use of declare() though,
which is scoped to a single file, and could be used like Perl's Pragmas.
Annoyingly, unrecognised declare() options issue a warning, so you can't
rely on older versions silently ignoring a new flag such as
declare(compat_flags=php4_constructors); http://3v4l.org/cikUU
Apparently, @ can't be used to suppress the warning, either, since the
parser chokes (I guess because declare() isn't really a statement as
such): http://3v4l.org/DFBfO
I'm not sure it would actually make sense for this case, anyway, but
some global behaviours would definitely benefit from being scoped this
way e.g. suppress notices in deprecated / 3rd-party code, but show them
in your own new modules, or ensure strlen is not over-ridden by mbstring
in a library which needs to count bytes.
Regards,
--
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]
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