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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:38:49 -0400
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To: Giovanni Giacobbi <giovanni@giacobbi.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] #52563: Adding E_NONE and/or E_EVERYTHING constants
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http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Avoiding-Magic-Constants.aspx

I'm sorry, I could not resist.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Giovanni Giacobbi <giovanni@giacobbi.net>w=
rote:

> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:14:05AM -0700, Stas Malyshev wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > >use an E_ constant with error_reporting" and not have the current
> > >situation where sometimes you use a constant (or constants) and
> > >sometimes you use a bare number, depending on what you want to
> > >achieve.
> >
> > What's wrong with using 0? 0 means "nothing", how hard is that? `
>
> Nothing wrong in using 0, but it would be much more elegant to
> stick to constants all from the same family. Someone already
> figured that out:
>
>  $ php -r 'print_r(get_defined_constants());' | grep ' 0' | wc -l
> 89
>
> Anyway, my opinion is I would like E_NONE in next major release,
> and I would also like E_ALL to be extended to include E_DEPRECATED and
> E_STRICT, instead of adding a really bogus E_DEVELOPMENT or E_EVERYTHING.
>
> Please also note that E_* indicates a single error channel, with the
> exception of E_ALL and possibly E_NONE if it gets added. I would avoid
> adding more E_* constants which don't represent a single channel. I
> would find it confusing.
>
> 2c
>
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