It's a protest. A protest against all the gags the establishment has put on php functions - big, small and useless alike. No more shall they remain ignored and voiceless. Hear me now, as the day has come for them to shake off their silence and SCREAM!
@Error: Php uses the @ operator to silence errors from functions, so that they fail silently. But while tracing through code which uses it, it becomes nearly impossible to properly figure out what is going wrong. The band-aid that is '@' makes it a complete pain to debug code.
Introducing the SCREAM 0.0.1, which has come out of someone else's frustrations with some pear modules which are liberally peppered with such gag instructions. Essentially, it uses the user opcode functionality to override the silence functions into NOPs (literally).
php -dscream.enabled=1 -r '@foo();' Fatal error: Call to undefined function foo() in Command line code on line 1
Dump it into php and hopefully debugging sloppily coded libraries should become much easier. This message was brought to you by the dread of Mondays. It's all over now - End Transmission.
--You have not convinced a man because you have silenced him.