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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:52:49 -0600
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To: Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Catching Multiple Exception Types
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

>> Except these two are in separate libraries that cannot share an interface.
>
> If these are separate libraries, you can't be sure that method does the
> same thing, or even that it will be existing in both.

This is not true. I can read the documentation for each method and
know they are the same semantically or if they don't exist in one or
the other.

> This looks very strange and brittle design [...]

I agree. However it is not always in our power to control.