Re: [PHP-DEV] E_STRICT

[Michael Walter]

    Spotting a missing function is quite easy, your script simply
    won't work and give a clear error.. :)
Well, not exactly :) It might just not work anymore at some time in the 
future (as you know you never really have 100% code coverage, even with 
unit testing and stuff. it's way less than 100%, actually ).

I don't understand why you can't simply have a special DEPRECATELOG (or 
just entries in the CHANGELOG) which mention which functions have been 
deprecated due to which reasons, and which talks about possible 
"fixes"/replacements, tho- a simple (and hypothetical) example:

[PHP 4.3.5]

- strlen(): removed, as it would be redundant now that count() is
  polymorphic.
So, when upgrading, you just go through the new entries, and grep your 
source files for occurences - no big deal.

Where's the missing point? ;)

Cheers,
Michael
    
    Maybe the best way to proceed with deprecation is to first 
    start giving the error message warning it's deprecated and in
    some version remove the functionality and replace the error
    with one that says something along the lines of:
     
      "This function is not here anymore, use foobar() instead."
      
    And later remove that too..
    
    --Jani
    
    

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