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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:23:13 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: Announcing RFC 'Anonymous Catches'
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 13:19 -0700, Stas Malyshev wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > If I'm to understand this RFC correctly, it is nothing more than a
> > random suggestion someone posed in the form of a tweet and the author is
> > saying why not add it since it's not hard to implement. So in summation
> 
> Well, here we go - this is why not add it, because it makes working with
> such code harder without actually benefiting anybody.

+1

Right now I set a breakpoint in my editor and look at an exception even
if it is not used, in future I'd have to change the code for that.

> > So this entire discussion can be summed up nicely with "Let's make the
> > variable optional because... why not?".
> 
> "Why not" is usually not a very good principle of language design, IMO.

+100

johannes