Re: Exceptions and builtin functions in PHP5

The exception mechanism will not replace trigger_error() or function return values any time soon Greg Tumurbaatar S. wrote:

<daniel@electroteque.org> wrote in message news:49201.203.15.102.65.1081404627.squirrel@www.electroteque.org...

If I understand right, PHP5 has an exception handling mechanism but it is only for "manual" using, i.e. a programmer can use try/catch but only for own code. PHP's built-in functions and functions from extensions still use old "return value" method. Yes? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

I bloody hope not or what is the point ?

In the current version of PHP, many built-in functions (if not all?) return FALSE on an error and some resource/handle on a success. So, instead of coding like this: ...

    $res = some_builtin_func(); // func does not raise exception on error
    if (!$res)
        throw new Exception();    // so I throw it manually

... I want to write: ...

    $res = some_builtin_func(); // func raises exception on error

// so I don't need to write additional lines ... So will PHP5 (or future versions) work as in my 2nd example?