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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:03:51 +1000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Make try/catch brackets optinal
From: charlie@charliesomerville.com (Charlie Somerville)

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> This has code readability problem written all over it. When maintaining=
 it
> also has problems, like with the bracket-less if's.
> You would need to add brackets if you add an extra line here, as well a=
s
> you might get unexpected behaviour of you forget to
> add brackets in that case.
> =20
> =20


I've often heard people make this argument, but I've never found it to be=
 a real concern in practise.

Is this really such a common problem=3F =20

On Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 8:01 PM, Rafael Dohms wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Ivan Enderlin =40 Hoa <
> ivan.enderlin=40hoa-project.net (mailto:ivan.enderlin=40hoa-project.net=
)> wrote:
> =20
> > Hi internals,
> > =20
> > As you certainly know, brackets defining blocks in PHP are optional i=
f
> > blocks contain a single instruction. Thus:
> > =20
> > if(=24condition) =7B
> > echo 'foobar';
> > =7D
> > =20
> > is strictly equivalent to:
> > =20
> > if(=24condition)
> > echo 'foobar';
> > =20
> > But this syntactic sugar is not applied uniformly to all PHP language=

> > constructions. I have the try/catch couple in mind.
> > =20
> =20
> =20
> Writing if blocks without brakets is considered a bad practice. IMHO an=
yway.
> =20
> =20
> > =46irst, I would like to know why it is not possible to write:
> > =20
> > try
> > throw new Exception('foobar');
> > catch(Exception =24e)
> > var=5Fdump(=24e->getMessage());
> > =20
> =20
> This has code readability problem written all over it. When maintaining=
 it
> also has problems, like with the bracket-less if's.
> You would need to add brackets if you add an extra line here, as well a=
s
> you might get unexpected behaviour of you forget to
> add brackets in that case.
> =20
> =20
> > as a strict equivalence of:
> > =20
> > try =7B
> > throw new Exception('foobar');
> > =7D
> > catch(Exception =24e) =7B
> > var=5Fdump(=24e->getMessage());
> > =7D
> > =20
> > Second, if it is possible, could we plan to have this =E2=80=9Cfeatur=
e=E2=80=9D
> > (uniformity actually) in PHP6 (or maybe before)=3F
> > =20
> =20
> Sorry, -1 from me.
> =20
> =20



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