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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC Discussion] Catching multiple exception types
From: sean@siobud.com (Sean DuBois)

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 04:42:29PM -0500, Pierrick Charron wrote:
> Hi internals,
>
> Bronisław Białek and I would like to start a discussion about allowing
> multiple exception types to be caught in a single catch statement.
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/multiple-catch
>
> A working implementation and tests are available in the RFC.
>
> We are waiting for your constructive feedback and thoughts.
>
> Thanks
> Pierrick

Hi!

It may be an issue that this is close in design to [0] union types.
This RFC would be *great* for code quality, just might be a subset of
union types.

thanks

[0] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/union_types