On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 12:44:09PM +0200, Marco wrote:
> >What might be nice is a patch to PHP4 that provides a bit in
> >error_reporting
> >that would cause warnings on stuff that might break on a move to PHP5.
> >
> >Someone could then switch it on and look at what is logged. I suspect that
> >many people would also be pleasantly surprised that 4 -> 5 is not as hard
> >as it seems.
> 
> 
> I think this is a good idea but might be hard to implement.... thinking
> about it couldn't we do something along these lines in userspace? IOW create
> a script which parses php files and flags up possible issues?

Replying again:

the other thing is that this mode does not need to do everything, it needs
to focus on the things that are hard to do by other means; eg:

1) warn on assignment of an object -- this is hard do to by 'eye balling' the 
code.

2) be silent on the use of a user defined function with the name 'clone'
   The user can find this by the use of grep.

A list of things like (2) should be given and it made clear that (1) WILL NOT
point them out.

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