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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:14:36 +0200
To: Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com>, Stas Malyshev
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From: joost.koehoorn@gmail.com (Joost Koehoorn)

On 25 juni 2013 at 22:06:40, Sherif Ramadan (theanomaly.is=40gmail.com) w=
rote:



On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Stas Malyshev=C2=A0<smalyshev=40sugarcrm=
.com>=C2=A0wrote:
Hi=21

> IMO actually it *makes* the code clearer, because =24ignoredException i=
s
> not used, though a variable name like =24ignored is self-explanatory,
> too.

It's not used by you - which btw is usually not a good idea - if you've
got an exception, you usually should somehow react to it - at least log
it or something, that's what the exceptions are for, if the situation
does not require special handling it shouldn't be an exception. But it
may be very useful for debugging, for example. Especially if somebody
other than you looks at this code and tries to figure out what is going
on. Removing vital information - like ability to see which exception was
thrown - just to save 3 keystrokes - looks like a very misguided idea to =
me.


Not to down-play the importance of what you're saying, since I fully agre=
e with it, but he is saying that this isn't a key-stroke saving propositi=
on.

If I'm to understand this R=46C correctly, it is nothing more than a rand=
om suggestion someone posed in the form of a tweet and the author is sayi=
ng why not add it since it's not hard to implement. So in summation this =
is one of those =22nice to have=22 features that has little cost and very=
 little benefit. And I'm referring only to making the Exception variable =
optional (not the anonymous catch -- I'm entirely opposed to that part).

So this entire discussion can be summed up nicely with =22Let's make the =
variable optional because... why not=3F=22.
Correct. The tweet was actually a serious request and grounded (see=C2=A0=
http://news.php.net/php.webmaster/16092 as an earlier response to you). S=
o the reason to make it optional is not really =22why not=3F=22, there is=
 some reasoning behind it.