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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:40:48 +0100
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To: Johannes Ott <mail@deroetzi.de>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] static constructor
From: me@kelunik.com (Niklas Keller)

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2015-03-12 12:33 GMT+01:00 Johannes Ott <mail@deroetzi.de>:

> Am 12.03.2015 um 12:16 schrieb Crypto Compress:
> > Hello Johannes,
> >
> > class Foo {
> >     private static function __static() {
> >         throw new Exception("boom");
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > while(true) {
> >     try {
> >         $foo = new Foo;
> >     } catch (Exception ex) {}
> > }
> >
> > Would this code be valid?
>
> Have to think about this issue, but on the first look I would say yes!
>
> Because the meaning of the static constructor is to do some necassary
> initialize for the class it should be able to throw an Exception if it
> cannot do it's work correctly. For example if it needs to read some
> configuration from a Database and is not able to connect.
>

How would it behave for the second call? If the first initialize fails due
to some exception, should that static constructor be executed again?


> For the caller I although would say, that the error inside the static
> constructor should be catchable, for the simple fact that every Error
> should be catchable for user-errorhandling.
>
> What is your point of view for this? I'm open for discussion about this.
>
> Regards
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> DerOetzi
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Regards, Niklas

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