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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:52:26 +0200
To: Rob Landers <rob@bottled.codes>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Context Managers
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From: tim@bastelstu.be (=?UTF-8?Q?Tim_D=C3=BCsterhus?=)

Hi

Am 2026-04-30 09:42, schrieb Rob Landers:
> I'd argue CMs are mechanisms, not policies. They encode setup and 
> teardown. Suppression is an error-handling policy decision that should 
> be visible at the call site, not mixed with the concerns of setting up 
> and tearing down resources.

I agree here and noted something similar in the “RAII vs Context 
Manager” thread: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/129463 (last 
paragraph).

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus