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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:22:11 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Make try/catch brackets optinal
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

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For all the reasons already stated, most explicitly because it make the
code ugly as sin, my vote is somewhere between "No", and "Hell No."

-1 on bracketless try/catch


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:44 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
> (uniformity 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/
>
> Member of HTML and WebApps Working Group of W3C
> http://w3.org/
>
>
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