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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 14:46:27 +0300
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To: Jakub Zelenka <bukka@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Raise warnings for json_encode() and
 json_decode() issues
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Jakub Zelenka <bukka@php.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Craig Duncan <php@duncanc.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nikita,
>>
>> Thanks for your input. Would you vote yes for throwing an exception?
>>
>>
> Just to clarify exceptions are no go for 7.x. It would have to be 8.x and
> it would be a huge BC break so I'm quite confident that this will fail the
> vote!

This is a long shot, but here's an idea: an OOP API throwing exceptions.

Would require more work both to implement and use, but it would surely
be less error-prone and there'd be no BC break.

Cheers,
Andrey.