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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:45:53 +0200
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To: Peter Beverloo <peter@lvp-media.com>
Cc: Rafael Dohms <listas@rafaeldohms.com.br>, 
	Charlie Somerville <charlie@charliesomerville.com>, ivan.enderlin@hoa-project.net, 
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Make try/catch brackets optinal
From: rumi.kg@gmail.com (Rune Kaagaard)

+1 for the consistency of it. It's surprising that:

    if ($foo)
        return $bar;
    else
        return 42;

works and:

    try
        maybe_dangerous();
    catch(Dynamite $e)
        handle_error();

does not.

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Peter Beverloo <peter@lvp-media.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Rafael Dohms <listas@rafaeldohms.com.br>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Charlie Somerville <
>> charlie@charliesomerville.com> wrote:
>>
>> > 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 as
>> > you might get unexpected behaviour of you forget to
>> > add brackets in that case.
>> >
>> > 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?
>> >
>>
>> I have seen this problem happen, people losing time trying to figure out
>> what is wrong only to find
>> its a missing bracket.
>> As Paul said, this is bug-prone.
>>
>
> Other bracket-less blocks allow authors to shoot themselves in the foot
> equally so, yet PHP supports these as well. The actual problem here is an
> inconsistency in the parser, which I'd consider to be a bug.
>
> Peter
>
>
>> --
>> Rafael Dohms
>> PHP Evangelist and Community Leader
>> http://www.rafaeldohms.com.br
>> http://www.phpsp.org.br
>>