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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] php5 beta
From: shane@caraveo.com (Shane Caraveo)

I knew I should have kept my mouth shut...

Marcus B=F6rger wrote:
> Hello Shane,
>=20
> just to repeat there weren't any exceptions in php4=20

Yes, you don't have to tell me the obvious.


and the things
> that'll use exceptions in php5 will require full rewrite anyway. So i
> don't see any problem.

try {
function_call_to_some_preexisting_library_that_doesnt_do_exceptions()
} catch(e) {
}

With auto exceptions, that breaks any error control the existing library =

might have.  So to make my opinion a bit stronger, -10 unless someone is =

clever enough to make it work in all instances.

Shane

> Thursday, June 19, 2003, 8:45:45 PM, you wrote:
>=20
> SC> +0  While I really like the idea, auto-exceptions for errors would =
mess=20
> SC> up library code that isn't written to use exceptions.  If that prob=
lem=20
> SC> can be dealt with correctly, then I'd be +1.  Otherwise, we need a =
new=20
> SC> error level.
> SC> Shane
>=20
> SC> Marcus B=F6rger wrote:
>=20
>>>Hello Sterling,
>>>
>>>We need exceptions instead of errors whenever a try/catch block is
>>>entered or a constructor gets called. This is a very easy thing to
>>>implement but we need a consensus before doing so.
>>>
>>>regards
>>>marcus
>>>
>>>p.s.: And i'd still like to have final classes
>>>
>>>Thursday, June 19, 2003, 2:15:06 AM, you wrote:
>>>
>>>SH> This is what I can think of for a concrete todo before the beta...=
 =20
>>>
>>>SH> http://www.php.net/~sterling/php5/BETA
>>>
>>>SH> any thing i missed? anything extraeneous?
>>>
>>>SH> -Sterling
>>>SH> --=20
>>>SH> "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."=20
>>>SH>     - Henry Ford
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20