On 06/22/2015 11:51 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > >> Is it a BC break against real code though? Fixing tests isn't a >> big deal. What kind of real code would break by turning calls with >> the wrong number of args from an error to a warning? > > Well, if we move to checking in ZPP only, then some of the errors that > previously were fatals (like iterator_array("")) would now become > warnings. In fact, even type mismatch is a warning for ZPP, which may > be unexpected, as it was a fatal before, so we may want to change that. > > But in some situation, like argument number mismatch, we will have a > warning, where before it was a fatal error. Which isn't strictly BC > break but allows some code to pass which previously didn't and may > hide some bugs. > > So we may want to be careful there.
I suppose so, but this seems like a relatively minor level of BC breakage especially for a major version bump. -Rasmus
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