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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:51:58 -0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Changing default assertion mode to throw exceptions
From: marcio.web2@gmail.com (Marcio Almada)

Hi!

>
> 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.
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Couldn't agree more, but I always assumed this BC break could be
too big before. Did you make any research on the impact already?

Otherwise +1

Ty,
M=C3=A1rcio