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Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 22:32:18 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] exceptions instead of errors
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)
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At 02:53 AM 5/4/2003 +0200, Marcus B=F6rger wrote:
>Some help of the engine would be good:
>- automatically set EH_THROW mode at "try"
>- automatically set EH_NORMAL mode at "catch" (first outmost catch)

Huh? I think it's definitely not obvious that I'd want these to happen=20
automatically. Actually I personally wouldn't, because I'd prefer PHP to=20
continue the way it works and only use exceptions in user-land.

>If noone objects i will commit this on monday evening.

Please don't before this is discussed. We have discussed this kind of thing=
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quite a few times and our opinion was that error handling in PHP shouldn't=
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be changed. We wouldn't want some configuration switch to change how the=20
scripts work nor is it a good idea if the same script behaves differently=20
according to one switch.
Anyway, we can discuss this again but definitely I don't think we should=20
jump the gun with commits in this area until people really think of the=20
whole picture. We have a large user base out there and we still want all of=
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the user-base to "talk" in the same language.
I won't really be around for the next two weeks so maybe it's best to wait=
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or in the least make sure Zeev takes part in this discussion.
Thanks,
Andi

P.S. -BTW, what does SQLite do?