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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Upgrading php
From: lsmith@php.net (Lukas Smith)

Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> Todd Ruth wrote:
> 
>>The hope
>>in my original email is that if php is clever enough to give
>>me a message, it might be clever enough to just make the change
>>too.
> 
> 
> A scripting language is not a spell checker, you can forget about it
> auto-correcting your code. The E_STRICT/E_NOTICE messages are emitted to
> notify the developer something is not quite right, so that they can make
> the appropriate changes to future proof their code.

Sounds like a feature someone could stick into their IDE or bytecode 
cache. However providing scripts to clean up language changes as a php 
script sounds like something that could be done if someone finds the time.

For now it really sounds like a great business opportunity to me :-)

regards,
Lukas