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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