Looking at our notice logs, I estimate (fairly roughly) that it would require about a week's worth of my time to fix these issues in vimeo.com’s 700K LOC codebase (the undefined variables are confined to our views).
IMO it's akin to taking the training wheels off the language – I think the PHP ecosystem is mature enough to deal with the change. On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 05:34, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi internals, > > I think it's time to take a look at our existing warnings & notices in the > engine, and think about whether their current classification is still > appropriate. Error conditions like "undefined variable" only generating a > notice is really quite mind-boggling. > > I've prepared an RFC with some suggested classifications, though there's > room for bikeshedding here... > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/engine_warnings > > Regards, > Nikita >
