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+====== Straw Poll: Redefine Constants Exception ======
+  * Date: 2022-01-23
+  * Author: Mark Randall, marandall@php.net
+  * Status: Strawpoll
+There have been a discussions in the past about upgrading the attempted redeclaration of constants to be an exception (ValueError).
+Here is one from 2016 from Dmitry:
+https://wiki.php.net/rfc/constant_redefinition
+Discussion:
+https://externals.io/message/93885
+Since this RFC was made in 2016, attempted redeclaration was promoted to a warning instead of a notice.
+As internals has been making efforts in recent years to move towards saner error handling this seems like a suitable candidate for tightening up, so I would like to collect opinions on how many people would be in favour of bumping this warning once more up to an exception (likely a ValueError) on the basis that attempting to redefine a constant is impossible, so is a programming error.
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