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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] trigger_error() enhancements
From: chrisw@aquacool.ltd.uk (Chris Wright)

At 08 April 2013 21:51 Thomas Anderson wrote:

> I was thinking it'd be useful if people could switch between throwing
> exceptions and displaying errors. If throw were a function and not a
> language construct one could do $function($error) where $function was a
> string equal to either 'trigger_error' or 'throw'. But alas that's not
> possible.

    function throw_exception($message, $level =3D 0)
    {
        throw new Exception($message, $level);
    }

;-)

For the record I think that the PHP errors vs. exceptions model kinda
sucks, but I also think that what you propose is even worse (no offence).

> Also, I think it'd be useful if developers could specificy which line
> number and file name the error [...] displays

This I could kind of go with. In particular it would be good to control the
file/line no *printed* without affecting the stack trace. If this is done
though, I would only want to specify how far up the call stack to go to get
this information, rather than actually specifying the values used.

Best Regards

Chris Wright (DaveRandom)