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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Continued try blocks
From: amaury@amaury.net (Amaury Bouchard)

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2013/4/29 Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>

> I agree. If your code can handle the problem, it should not throw. If it
> throws, the control should not go back there, since the code already
> gave up and declared it can not continue doing whatever it was doing.
> Exceptions are meant to handle exceptional situations, not serve as a
> kind of goto with objects, IMO, and if the code threw an exception, it
> should be done.
>

It's a point of view, not something the language should enforce.
You may have a lib/object/chunk of code which raises exceptions, because
its developer thought some error is not recoverable; but when you use it,
you don't want to break your program's execution.
It happens.

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