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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Continued try blocks
From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs)

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> As Julien said, there is a BC break, when a try/catch block is written
> inside a loop. But I think it's not a major usage, and it's a minor
> inconvenient.

Yeah, and catching and discarding exceptions also possible, albeit a minor
inconvinience.
I don't have a strong opinion on this feature(albeit I think it isn't a
coincidence that most languages doesn't offer a dedicated solution to this
problem) but please don't reuse the continue keyword for it.
There are a bunch of code out there where which uses exceptions in a loop
context.
For example you have a retry counter decremented in a loop and you catch
the exceptions and retry until the retry limit is reached.

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