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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 18:53:26 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Changing default assertion mode to throw exceptions
From: kalle@php.net (Kalle Sommer Nielsen)

Hi

Den man. 13. jul. 2020 kl. 20.37 skrev Levi Morrison <levim@php.net>:
>
> 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.

+1 on this. I was recently surprised why this wasn't the default either


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Kalle Sommer Nielsen
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