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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:20:57 +0200
To: "Lukas Smith" <lsmith@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre)

Hello,

On 7/13/06, Lukas Smith <lsmith@php.net> wrote:

> Strict Standards: Declaration of Europe::get_countries() should be
> compatible with that of Scandinavia::get_countries() in - on line 14
>
> So I dont really see where its killing a fly with a tank either.

That's why I said it is killing a tank (userland) with a fly (adding
this prefiy internally).

> All that people then need to do is write a simple regexp, that filters out
> the version number in the E_STRICT notice and pass it off to
> version_compare(). Very trivial to implement in userland, nothing more
> than changing a few strings in PHP core. End of story, problem solved.

if foo-1.2.1 is E_STRICT compliant with 5.1.4 and foo-1.2.2 with
5.2.0, update to 1.2.2 must be the way. It is the safest way, the past
shown us that some E_STRICT can be related to (sometimes critical)
bugs and we should treat them as bugs. Also, I do not like the
additions of pedantic E_STRICT, but that's another issue.

I would hate to start to add such notice detections in any of my code,
including pear.

--Pierre