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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 17:30:39 +0200
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To: Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Exceptions Vs Errors
From: alex.aulbach@gmail.com (Alex Aulbach)

2012/9/3 Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>:
> more ... try/catch always seems like 'I can't be bothered so just do this if
> you can' where it would be much tidier if file_put_contents(); was written
> so it simply finished with an error if it has a problem?

Hm. I want to bring in some thoughts.

Perhaps I have not the right words to describe what I mean, but there
are 3 things which come in my mind when PHP may switch the
error-handling to any kind of exceptions:

1. Current error-handling has it's advantages. Ideal for short
programs. I don't wanna miss it. I need to ignore errors completely.
2. I think - prove me wrong :) - it is not possible to change the hole
error-handling from one PHP-version to another, especially when the
behavior changes so entirely. I think it will take some time. Maybe we
have to live with a mixture (new exceptions and old error-handling)
for some time?
3. Why not having this as concept? Maybe it's a good strategy to
enable both: current error-handling and having exceptions?

The rest is logic: When I want to enable to handle an exception like
an PHP-error, I need to tell PHP during the creation of the error,
that it should not handle it like an exception.

Ok, ok, as Rasmus correctly mentioned, uncaught exceptions are by
definition fatal.

But isn't catching an exception not like "I know how to handle it?"
And when I know how to handle it, couldn't I handle it in the
exception directly?

More questions than answers so far.

-- 
Alex Aulbach