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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Flamewar Summary
From: alan@akbkhome.com (Alan Knowles)

-1 on both here, E_STRICT can wait and dynamic static variables are 
pretty pointless, the workaround is clearer than the kludge..
StaticClass::$options['somekey'] = 'value';

Regards
Alan

Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:

> There are 2 PHP 5.2 changes there has been a lot of back and forth  
> flaming going around and we need to finally come to a decision about.
>
> The two topics are:
>
> Inclusion of E_STRICT and E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR into E_ALL
> Addition of support for dynamic statics ala: class foo {} foo::$bar = 1;
>
> So please throw in your +1/-1 so, that we can have a conclusion on  
> these matters.
>
> Personally, I am against both changes.
>
> I think the error reporting level change is too major change for a  
> minor release such as 5.2 and will cause problems for all the people  
> who use things like E_ALL &~ E_NOTICE and will now
> see E_STRICT messages that is not their intent to see, with the  
> setting they are only anticipating warnings and errors. Given that  
> most people don't bother to turn of displaying of errors, it could  
> have an affect on quite a few applications, very few big PHP apps can  
> run without generating any E_STRICT messages.
>
> As far as statics, there are no BC reasons not to do it that I can  
> think of, but it just seems wrong to me from a design perspective to  
> allow dynamic creation of static object properties.
>
> Ilia Alshanetsky
> Advanced Internet Designs Inc.
> ilia@prohost.org
>
> P.S. Please stay on topic.
>