RFC: Allow throwing an exception as right part of null coalescing operator

8 years ago by Tim Bezhashvyly — view source — reply

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Dear internals,

Don't you think allowing to throw an exception as the right side of null coalescing operator would be a good idea?

Something like:

echo $a ?? throw new \RuntimeException('foo');

Regards,
Tim

8 years ago by Niklas Keller — view source — reply

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Dear internals,

Don't you think allowing to throw an exception as the right side of null
coalescing operator would be a good idea?

Something like:

echo $a ?? throw new \RuntimeException('foo');

Regards,
Tim

Sometimes that would be really helpful. What you can do is something like
that:

function raise(Throwable $t) {
throw $t;
}

$a = $a ?? raise(new \RuntimeException("foo"));

Regards, Niklas