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Subject: Make try/catch brackets optinal
From: ivan.enderlin@hoa-project.net ("Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa")

Hi internals,

As you certainly know, brackets defining blocks in PHP are optional if=20
blocks contain a single instruction. Thus:

if($condition) {
echo 'foobar';
}

is strictly equivalent to:

if($condition)
echo 'foobar';

But this syntactic sugar is not applied uniformly to all PHP language=20
constructions. I have the try/catch couple in mind.
First, I would like to know why it is not possible to write:

try
throw new Exception('foobar');
catch(Exception $e)
var_dump($e->getMessage());

as a strict equivalence of:

try {
throw new Exception('foobar');
}
catch(Exception $e) {
var_dump($e->getMessage());
}

Second, if it is possible, could we plan to have this =93feature=94=20
(uniformity actually) in PHP6 (or maybe before)?

Best regards.

--=20
Ivan Enderlin
Developer of Hoa
http://hoa.42/ or http://hoa-project.net/

PhD. student at DISC/Femto-ST (Vesontio) and INRIA (Cassis)
http://disc.univ-fcomte.fr/ and http://www.inria.fr/

Member of HTML and WebApps Working Group of W3C
http://w3.org/