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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:29:47 -0800
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To: Crypto Compress <cryptocompress@googlemail.com>
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	Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>, PHP Developers Mailing List <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] __debugInfo()
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Crypto Compress
<cryptocompress@googlemail.com> wrote:
> No, it's not about risk of abuse. There can be *only* abuse!
> This hook is only intended to hide debug information. If you don't want to
> hide info, you don't need this hook.
> Debug info is *important*! Do not hide it without a option to bypass!
>
That statement is incorrect.

This hook is not only intended to hide debug information.  It can just
as easily be used to expose *more* debug information.

For example:

class MyMySQL {
  protected $conn;

  public function __debugInfo() {
    return [
      'conn' => $this->conn,
      'encoding' => mysql_client_encoding($this->conn),
      'error' => mysql_error($this->conn),
      'info' => mysql_info($this->conn),
      // etc...
  }
}

Here, our mysql wrapper class exposes a great deal more information
for use when debugging what went wrong.  Not less.  Therefore I refute
your statement.

-Sara