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Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 23:11:44 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] A better error handling approach.
From: adamjonr@gmail.com (Adam Jon Richardson)

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Stuart Langley <slangley@google.com> wrote:
> So is the feature you're describing is tuples and a use case of that feature
> is an easier way to do error handling?

No.

Tuples are an implementation detail specific to how Python allows one
to conveniently return multiple values. I merely mentioned this
because PHP's ordered hash maps (arrays) provide a similar avenue of
implementation.

The ability to conveniently pass back multiple values is necessary to
implement and promote an error handling convention similar to Go's, a
convention that seems to work really well for many cases. I was
proposing that this approach be considered as an addition to PHP.

Adam