[Proposal] New error type E_DEPRECATED

Hello Davey, Wednesday, June 25, 2003, 4:52:18 AM, you wrote: D> Hey, D> I was thinking that perhaps implementing a new error type, E_DEPRECATED D> might be a good idea for helping to advocate the deprecation of D> functions and such. D> It would simply work in that it shows a "notice" type message, that is D> only shown under E_ALL and if E_DEPRECATED is appended to the D> error_reporting php.ini line (or via error_reporting() function). D> Perhaps the message could link to documentation on why it has been D> deprecated/what it has been deprecated in favour of. D> It was also noted when discussed with others, that the PHP Doc team can D> automatically detect and document deprecated functions. D> The only thing this would really break is people _not_ using the D> constants, in which case they've been repeatedly warned not to do so D> ever since the last change (4.0.0). D> It was suggested that perhaps make E_DEPRECATED 2048 (Add D> #define E_DEPRECATED (1<<11L)) then add E_DEPRECATED to the D> #define E_ALL (E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE | E_NOTICE | E_CORE_ERROR | D> E_CORE_WARNING | E_COMPILE_ERROR | E_COMPILE_WARNING | E_USER_ERROR | D> E_USER_WARNING | E_USER_NOTICE | E_DEPRECATED) Internally on the c side it's not that easy, because some error handling functions have to know how to handle the new error type. But if everything is in place we could also add a new function flag in the engine which triggers the 'deprecated' error whenever a deprecated function gets called.