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Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 18:14:41 -0400
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To: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>, PHP Internals <internals@lists.php.net>, 
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Core functions throwing exceptions in PHP7
From: scott@paragonie.com (Scott Arciszewski)

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
> tl;dr: This should definitely throw, but I'm as yet unclear as to *what* it
> should throw. My gut says zpp should throw Error, length/min/max errors
> should throw Error and the randomness-not-available condition should throw
> Exception.

Hi Nikita,

This sounds reasonable to me. As I've said before, I don't have any
real preference for which is thrown. If Aaron (author of the Throwable
RFC that passed unanimously) wants to chime in, I'd almost certainly
go with whatever you, him, and Anthony could agree on.

Scott Arciszewski
Chief Development Officer
Paragon Initiative Enterprises <https://paragonie.com>