Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:69864 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 48493 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2013 13:02:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Oct 2013 13:02:09 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.4.21.210 cpc22-asfd3-2-0-cust209.1-2.cable.virginm.net Received: from [80.4.21.210] ([80.4.21.210:11195] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id A0/81-40084-FCB6A625 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:02:07 -0400 To: internals@lists.php.net,Larry Garfield Message-ID: <526A6BCC.3060502@php.net> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:02:04 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <52699FB5.20300@garfieldtech.com> In-Reply-To: <52699FB5.20300@garfieldtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 80.4.21.210 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Exceptions in the engine From: krakjoe@php.net (Joe Watkins) On 10/24/2013 11:31 PM, Larry Garfield wrote: > On 10/24/13 12:41 PM, Nikita Popov wrote: >> Hi internals! >> >> I'd like to propose an RFC, which allows the use of exceptions within the >> engine and also allows changing existing fatal errors to exceptions: >> >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/engine_exceptions >> >> This topic has been cropping up in the discussions for several of the >> recent RFCs and I think the time has come to consider moving away from >> fatal errors. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Thanks, >> Nikita > > As a PHP user-space developer I love this idea. However, I share the > concern of others here that it could result in BC unpleasantness, even > if limited to the E_FATAL and E_RECOVERABLE_FATAL use cases. I don't > know off hand how various versions of Drupal would handle this. > > --Larry Garfield How could anything be reliant on the behaviour of a fatal error in any meaningful way ?? Cheers Joe