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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Removing Try and Catch
From: johannes@php.net (Johannes Schlueter)

Hi Marcus,

Marcus Boerger wrote:
> i thought of ignoring all of this thread but you didn't let me.
> Exceptions are neccessary for constructor failure and there is no
> other way to do it.

So what about removing constructors, too?
$object = new class;
if (!$object->init()) die;

(no, this wasn't serious)

> BUT even though goto is needed for non oo 
> generator code (compiler compilers etc.) it is a dangerous thing
> that basically promotes spagetti code.

But goto can also create cleaner code and other PHP features can be abused,
too. I'm sure no one here who  wants PHP to be a second Perl ;-)

In particular for small shell scripts, where I don't want to use OO it can
be quite usefull to me, and if it is documented properly I think it
wouldn't do that much harm - some people already write ugly, unreadable
code, this is possible without goto.

johannes