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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] static constructor
From: cryptocompress@googlemail.com (Crypto Compress)

Am 12.03.2015 um 12:33 schrieb Johannes Ott:
> 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.
>
> 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

If it's valid code then caching thrown exception and rethrow as 
wrapped-inner-exception on each subsequent access on Foo, seems 
feasible. I like the idea but cannot wrap my head around this.