Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:59330
Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm
Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.216.46 as permitted sender)
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <CAPXHV4rGocRuOao1XHD5ovSQdbRd4ZyqJZ0UGk_6O_ysRVhkLg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CADqTB_i0yEgnqiOVbRLteA4rrdTuH1x-wNyEi2wQf0XnvrY9Hg@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAPXHV4rGocRuOao1XHD5ovSQdbRd4ZyqJZ0UGk_6O_ysRVhkLg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 17:34:04 -0400
Message-ID: <CAAyV7nGwm4SU0m1N-K38xo-8K=EZpK-y=dfsNFUTJ9=RTdTUdQ@mail.gmail.com>
To: Samuel Giles <sam.e.giles@gmail.com>
Cc: Rasmus Schultz <rasmus@mindplay.dk>, internals@lists.php.net
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] resume after exception
From: ircmaxell@gmail.com (Anthony Ferrara)

Sam,

I'm not saying it's a good idea, but this would allow for pythonic
style generators.  http://wiki.python.org/moin/Generators

Just pointing out one potential use-case...

Anthony

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Samuel Giles <sam.e.giles@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Internals
>
> function test()
>> {
>> =A0echo "Begin Test!\n";
>>
>> =A0throw new Interrupt();
>>
>> =A0echo "Execution resumed!";
>> }
>>
>> try
>> {
>> =A0test();
>> }
>> catch (Interrupt $e)
>> {
>> =A0echo "Execution interrupted.\n";
>> =A0resume;
>> }
>>
>> The output of this would be:
>>
>> Begin Test!
>> Execution interrupted.
>> Execution resumed!
>>
>
> My major concern would be, how does this* really* add to PHP? =A0Perhaps =
I'm
> missing the point, but what would this allow that can't be done in some
> form using well defined "patterns", for lack of a better word.
>
> I'm not keen on the idea of throwing things such as Interrupts either, it
> doesn't quite fit with their general use case.
>
> Sam