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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Deprecation of the Error Control Operator (@ symbol)
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Tue, 5 Jan 2016, Sara Golemon wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Aaron Piotrowski <aaron@icicle.io> wrote:
>
> > Before anything can be done with the @ operator, changes will need 
> > to be made to remove warnings for conditions that the code has no 
> > way of checking prior to calling these functions.
> >
> I'd include pragmatism in that calculus.  fopen() can technically be 
> safely called, but only by adding a lot of boilerplate that makes code 
> ugly.

And susceptible to race conditions.

cheers,
Derick