RE: [PHP] try - catch is not so clear to me...

From: Marc Steinert > Basically try-catch gives you the ability to handle errors > outside a class or method scope, by the > calling instance. > This comes in handy, if you are programming in an object > orientated way and thus enables you to > seperate error handling from the rest of your functionality. > Means, your methods do only the things, they are meant to do, > without bothering to handling occuring > errors. > Hope, that made things clearer. You know, this is the first explanation of exceptions I have seen that actually makes sense. I could never figure out what they were and why they were. It always looked like it was just a special subset of errors, a distinction without a difference, as it were. But looking at them as a technique to move the handlers out of the mainline code actually shines some real light on the subject. Thank you, Bob McConnell