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To: Nicolas Grekas <nicolas.grekas+php@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] New in initializers
From: mike@newclarity.net (Mike Schinkel)

> On Jun 17, 2021, at 5:14 AM, Nicolas Grekas =
<nicolas.grekas+php@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> Le mer. 16 juin 2021 =C3=A0 13:47, Larry Garfield =
<larry@garfieldtech.com> a
> =C3=A9crit :
>> Would others be comfortable with that, if it allowed new-initializers =
for
>> static properties and class constants?
>>=20
>=20
> Honestly, I don't know.
>=20
> Instantiation might fail because of either a throwing constructor or
> because of a throwing autoloader.
>=20
> Being able to know where to put the try/catch to recover from these =
might
> be important when writing generic code.
>=20

> With the current state of the RFC, it's fine. With "undefined =
evaluation
> time", it might make things fragile without any way to make them =
resilient
> enough.

Wouldn't the simple way to make them resilient enough be to wrap a =
try-catch block around any code that potentially throws an exception =
within the class being instantiated on initialization?

-Mike=