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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Tracing exit()
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de (Christoph Becker)

On 05.08.2016 at 01:37, Sara Golemon wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Bishop Bettini <bishop@php.net> wrote:
>
>> Or, alternatively, I wonder if a method to convert an exit to an exception
>> would be better:
>
> Eh... That feels less-obvious to me for the reasons you stated in your
> OP.  I'm not convinced that being able to recover from an
> \ExitException is a good thing, but I don't have a compelling reason
> why it's bad, so I'll keep thinking about that.

That could be useful for testing.  uopz allows to overload ZEND_EXIT
(PHP 5 only, not sure why that has been removed in the PHP 7 version),
and there's also a respective request for runkit:
<https://github.com/zenovich/runkit/issues/49>.

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Christoph M. Becker