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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:16:18 -0400
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Assertions
From: j.david.lists@gmail.com (J David)

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
> In addition to all that you've said, I should point out that both Java an=
d
> Python have an assert statement which raises an exception, which happens =
to
> be called AssertionError in both languages.

And in Python you can subclass an int.  This does not make that a good
idea for PHP.  (Java only wishes it could subclass int, hence
Integer.)

In Java, for better or for worse, every error is an exception.  This
does not make that a good idea for PHP.

(Shrill voice) "If all your friends jumped off a bridge=85"

Should require($myFile) throw an exception too?  (Some people, perhaps
many, would say yes.)  What about parse errors in a file include()d at
runtime?

Thanks!