Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:106739 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 2915 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2019 17:40:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) (76.75.200.58) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 28 Aug 2019 17:40:03 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <7ddbae5c-7451-4094-8b32-19676128054b@thelounge.net> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:12:14 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 94.4.34.143 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Reclassifying engine warnings From: markyr@gmail.com (Mark Randall) Message-ID: On 28/08/2019 15:54, Chase Peeler wrote: > Bottom line is that we live with the not-so-good stuff so that we can focus > on adding new great stuff. The not-so-good stuff isn't holding us back, and > trying to fix things like undeclared variables would have absolutely ZERO > positive effect on our business, which uses this application every day. This is a classic case of technical debt. It might not bite you in the ass today, tomorrow, or next week, but it will inevitably bite you in the ass at some point, and the longer it's left, the more it's going to hurt when that time comes. Don't build your business on a foundation of eggshells and then complain when something comes along that makes those eggshells crumble. -- Mark Randall