On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Derick Rethans wrote:
I believe we mentioned once the possibility of adding another error
level,
which is fatal - but still catchable by set_error_handler(). That is
a good
idea (which we should be doing either way).
That would work well. I just want the type hints to be catchable.
Except that it shouldn't be able to stop the application. The reason for
this is that Unit Testing on this stuff should still work, and you can't
always anticipate what your users do with your libraries. If a user
does something wrong in a third party module to your application,
and pass a wrong opbject to one of your utility classes, when we do
not want the whole application to stop immediately, as it might be
just a sub-part of you application which is very possible to ignore
for the full working of your application. This is why
I first suggested an exception, so that the application can continue.
Although in *my* opinion the application just should blow up, other
people disagree with me here.