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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:27:16 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [DISCUSSION] User-land Throwable
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From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Mon, Jul 28, 2025, at 6:48 AM, Rokas =C5=A0leinius wrote:

> | real-world example of a use-case you want to enable
>
> Say I am implementing a job runner, I do its error handling, and I wan=
t=20
> to enrich the caught exception with additional helpful data for=20
> debugging. In this process I create a custom exception=20
> MyJobHandlerException, but the trace of the new exception includes my=20
> handler code, which the end user does not care about. I wish to=20
> overwrite the trace of the new MyJobHandlerException instance with the=20
> trace from the originally caught exception, but I cannot.
>
> I was always sure that the reason behind all methods of \Exception=20
> being final is Larry-Garfield-blogpost length/depth so I never bothere=
d=20
> to ask and made workarounds.

Hey, I resemble that remark! :-P

(I actually have no idea what the original reason was for making so much=
 of Exceptions final.)

I'm not sure if this would cover what you're talking about, but I did st=
art a discussion about lightweight exceptions a few months ago.  I didn'=
t go anywhere:=20

https://externals.io/message/127188

--Larry Garfield