AW: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Class instances counter
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Ferenc Kovacs [mailto:[email protected]]
> Gesendet: Montag, 6. Mai 2013 12:47
> An: Patrick ALLAERT
> Cc: Sebastian Bergmann; PHP Development
> Betreff: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Class instances counter
>
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Patrick ALLAERT
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > 2013/5/6 Sebastian Bergmann <[email protected]>:
> > > On 04/30/2013 10:04 AM, Frank Liepert wrote:
> > >> Voting starts as of now and ends on 7th May, 2013.
> > >
> > > I voted -1; not because I do not think the feature is useful
> > > but because I think it belongs in an extension such as Xdebug and
> > > not in PHP itself.
> >
> > Seriously, an extension just for that?
> > Was var_dump()/print_r() a mistake adding it to core since it
> (mostly)
> > belongs to debugging as well?
> >
> >
> a better comparison would be debug_zval_dump, and yes, I think that it
> caused more trouble than it solved, and should have left it for
> extensions
> (xdebug has a better alternative) to provide something similar.
>
> --
> Ferenc Kovács
> @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
Somehow I'm glad to see, that there is still some ongoing discussion.
Unfortunately and considering the RFC process, some new and fundamental arguments were raised right
after the voting has started. It might be a reason to halt the vote, but I see no reason for doing
it. I'm not sure if the discussion period was too short or not. From April, 11th on there were
no more comments on the RFC.
The interim voting result is perfectly okay for me. But maybe one should think about improving the
RFC process (longer minimum discussion period etc.).
Some last words to the RFC itself: I'm aware of the documentation saying "PHP does not
have an internal debugging facility." Still, there are various functions which are used within
the meaning of debugging. To mention a few: headers_list(), memory_get_usage(), var_dump() or even
print_r(). If there is a general paradigm shift in terms of refering new debugging functionalities
to extensions like Xdebug or saying there are no use cases for production mode and therefore
"no" (Pierre), then it should be mentioned somewhere.
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