Re: 'use strict' is not Perl

in reply to 'use strict' is not Perl

the PHP equivalent of 'use strict' (at least with respect to variable declaration) is setting the 'register_globals' configuration option to false. in PHP 4.1, the default for this setting in the distributed php.ini files will change from true to false. i don't know if the PHP community will adopt this recommendation, or continue on with potentially broken and insecure code.

also, using the E_NOTICE warning level will get error reporting similar to -w for Perl (variables used before they have an assigned value, potential precedence problems, etc.).

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Re: Re: 'use strict' is not Perl by Anonymous Monk on May 10, 2002 at 14:58 UTC
the PHP equivalent of 'use strict' (at least with respect to variable declaration) is setting the 'register_globals' configuration option to false. Great steaming hairy bollocks! All that does is stop variables that are passed by GET or POST from being declared as globals.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: 'use strict' is not Perl by ignatz (Vicar) on May 10, 2002 at 16:46 UTC
EXACTLY, thus not polluting everything with variables from all over the damn place. The goal (strict) is the same, even though the web centric context of PHP is different. It's going to be hard for them to get out of their years of bad habits. Maybe PHP 5 will solve some of this, but I doubt it. ()-() \"/ `	[reply]

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