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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 21:15:28 -0400
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To: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Exceptions Vs Errors
From: ircmaxell@gmail.com (Anthony Ferrara)

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Derick,

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Sep 2012, Anthony Ferrara wrote:
>
> > > I don't wish to derail this thread from the get-go, but what's your
> > > opposition to moving to exceptions?
> >
> > I'm absolutely for moving to exceptions. I asked this question as a
> > thought exercise to see 1. If the current error system can be improved,
> or
> > 2. To identify if it can't, and exceptions really are the better route.
>
> What you are staying here is really: if we can't improve error handling,
> let's break all code out there.


Not quite. What I'm saying is that the current situation isn't great, and
that we should find a way of fixing it. If it can be done in a BC manner,
then great. If not, then so be it. But we should consider alternatives...

And there are ways of doing it without breaking "all code out there",
similar to a "use strict" token, and treat it separately per file... Etc...

I'm not making a proposal yet, just wanted to get a discussion going about
the options that we have without immediately jumping to exceptions (I think
that's where it will ultimately end up, but wanted to explore options
first)...

Anthony

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