Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:67829 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 2333 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2013 20:20:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Jun 2013 20:20:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=theanomaly.is@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=theanomaly.is@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.212.182 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: theanomaly.is@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.212.182 mail-wi0-f182.google.com Received: from [209.85.212.182] ([209.85.212.182:41543] helo=mail-wi0-f182.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 0A/D3-18197-28BF9C15 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:20:18 -0400 Received: by mail-wi0-f182.google.com with SMTP id m6so1170302wiv.3 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:20:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=H2PLQEan7Sy+OqWTBYUHWOFUfTsO6enWoxEiT3Lgk0A=; b=IRxwPxO7zpdGGO6V3jywM3m1fCEogsennfjXitiQKmT5/uBK2iyZwYmQ6+5a9w5VVc wcEL8E7+WsIfoGQPeC5WPcCr/swohet9aBdiEcgXzxi6QRreV1NuoE6egZz2NkAgjZi6 BTfZ733Zjs5W04J5oQQuyUEf1ubwkEWQ07X+h7rIdHIikfmS5XI+yNZfD31gUJxRH1mS H94WOKOCn2mF9A5lHrSXuZtM/XzpI3l/r/OzT8KhESqoDjiqLQ+AtNDuvhMqw5JUIHb3 VSILzbMiSt/10q4J8skeCqRCda2h5qpy2nl4xVeSso6aOxHzf+U83RpRySyPnDei5SdT rhZw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.119.195 with SMTP id kw3mr446026wjb.64.1372191615171; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:20:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.60.205 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:20:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4ED7146272E04A47B986ED49E771E347BB4DF6F235@Ikarus.ameusgmbh.intern> <51C9DED2.5080401@sugarcrm.com> <51C9F485.6050709@sugarcrm.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:20:15 -0400 Message-ID: To: Joost Koehoorn Cc: Stas Malyshev , Michael Wallner , "internals@lists.php.net" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e01228946c9422b04e0004184 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: Announcing RFC 'Anonymous Catches' From: theanomaly.is@gmail.com (Sherif Ramadan) --089e01228946c9422b04e0004184 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Joost Koehoorn wrote: > On 25 juni 2013 at 22:06:40, Sherif Ramadan (theanomaly.is@gmail.com) > wrote: > > > So this entire discussion can be summed up nicely with "Let's make the > variable optional because... why not?". > Correct. The tweet was actually a serious request and grounded (see > http://news.php.net/php.webmaster/16092 as an earlier response to you). > So the reason to make it optional is not really "why not?", there is some > reasoning behind it. > All of those reasons are pretty much a circuitous justification for writing bad code, in my opinion. None of the things mentioned in that mail are an actual reason for why you would need to remove the variable, to be completely frank. Primarily the reason I chose not to respond to it. When the argument is "we need to remove it because I'm not using it" there really is no argument here. --089e01228946c9422b04e0004184--