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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:45:18 -0400
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To: Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Reclassifying engine warnings
From: matthewmatthew@gmail.com (Matthew Brown)

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Kicking a house is a poor analogy IMO - most people don=E2=80=99t upgrade a=
 major
language version without first verifying that their code still works in the
new version.

And the PHP ecosystem is strong =E2=80=93 it's possible to find out today i=
f your
code is likely to break (on undefined variables) with both static analysis
tools and runtime error handlers.


On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 13:24, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote=
:

> On 28 August 2019 17:53:55 BST, Matthew Brown <matthewmatthew@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >It's not breaking all the things - it's breaking code that should have
> >been broken already, but somehow wasn't.
>
>
> It's still breaking it though.
>
> If you realise that a house is built badly and could be destroyed by a
> well-aimed kick, you could just give it a kick and say "ah well, not my
> fault"; or you could warn the owners, offer help in fixing it, and
> understand that they might be too busy to do it right away.
>
> I don't see why it needs to be such a big deal to ask if this is somethin=
g
> we actually need to kick, right now.
>
> Regards,
>
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> Rowan Collins
> [IMSoP]
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