Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:42358 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 69818 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2008 11:02:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Dec 2008 11:02:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=steph@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=steph@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 64.99.136.166 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: steph@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.99.136.166 smtprelay-virgin0166.hostedemail.com Received: from [64.99.136.166] ([64.99.136.166:45883] helo=smtprelay-virgin.hostedemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 6B/30-02661-DA0DC494 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:02:06 -0500 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (ff-bigip1 [10.5.19.254]) by smtprelay06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 99B9C17B49EE; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:02:02 +0000 (UTC) X-SpamScore: 1 X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,b1d509f7d60efef6,691ff1dea13fdf9b,steph@php.net,internals@lists.php.net:faw217@gmail.com,RULES_HIT:355:379:539:540:541:542:543:567:599:601:988:989:1155:1156:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1538:1587:1593:1594:1711:1714:1730:1747:1766:1792:2073:2075:2078:2393:2553:2559:2562:3027:3350:3622:3865:3866:3867:3869:3871:3872:3874:3876:3877:4250:4699:5007:6114:6119:6261:7653:7875:7903:8501,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:,MSBL:none,DNSBL:none Received: from foxbox (62-31-252-63.cable.ubr07.shef.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.252.63]) (Authenticated sender: steph.fox) by omf13.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:02:01 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <002401c96292$aed4aad0$3ffc1f3e@foxbox> To: , "Kuba Wieczorek" References: Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:04:07 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="ISO-8859-2"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-session-marker: 73746570682E666F78 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Undefined constants producing E_NOTICE From: steph@php.net ("Steph Fox") Hi Kuba, > For the moment some unexpected behaviour caused by use of undefined > constant may be hard to fix with low error reporting level. So don't use a low error reporting level. Moreover, > treating an undefined constant as a string does not make sense. I know > that PHP is intended to be a flexible language, but for me it's a bit > thick. Just how is PHP supposed to know that some random string is intended to be anything else? - Steph