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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:49:13 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Make try/catch brackets optinal
From: dragoonis@gmail.com (Paul Dragoonis)

Why is your try block only going to contain 1 line, and that's
throwing an exception??

try
throw new Exception('foobar');
catch(Exception $e)


Braces are a good thing, they give structure and stop people from
mis-reading things and writing bugs, the same can be said for the if()
situation.

1) Braces are good.
2) Try with only one line in it to throw an exception doesn't seem
like a realistic situation.

-1 from me, sorry Hoa.

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa
<ivan.enderlin@hoa-project.net> wrote:
> Hi internals,
>
> As you certainly know, brackets defining blocks in PHP are optional if
> 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
> 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 (unif=
ormity
> actually) in PHP6 (or maybe before)?
>
> Best regards.
>
> --
> 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/
>
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>
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