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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecation of the Error Control Operator (@ symbol)
From: patrickallaert@php.net (Patrick ALLAERT)

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Le jeu. 31 d=C3=A9c. 2015 =C3=A0 16:42, Dennis Birkholz <php@dennis.birkhol=
z.biz> a
=C3=A9crit :

> Hi all,
>
> Am 31.12.2015 um 15:52 schrieb Junade Ali:
> > I am looking to submit an RFC in order to remove the error suppression
> > operator in PHP, namely the @ symbol.
>
> before you can deprecate the @ operator, there is a lot of work to do
> beforehand. A lot of functions print warnings when they fail (in
> addition to returning false). All these warnings have to be removed and
> put into the matching error()/errno() functions. Before that there is no
> way to remove the @ operator. Otherwise you have to disable error
> reporting for warnings and that would be far worse than usage of @
> currently is.
>
> Greets
> Dennis
>

As Dennis said, there is a huge work to be done before that, not that it
shouldn't prevent you from doing that RFC, but this one should therefor
contains a list of all prerequisites and possibly links to all RFCs yours
would depend on.

Cheers,
Patrick

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