Re: [RFC][DISCUSSION] throw expression

Hey Ilija, Ilija Tovilo wrote:

Hi everybody! I hope you’re doing well. Due to the modest feedback I’d like to move the throw expression RFC to “under discussion”. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/throw_expression In short, the RFC proposes to convert the throw statement into an expression to make it usable in arrow functions, the coalesce operator, as well as the ternary/elvis operator.

Thanks for this RFC, I have wanted this sometimes when writing PHP code. The ?? operator is one of those places, but I am surprised you haven't mentioned the and and or operators. It is classic PHP style (probably borrowed from Perl?) to write e.g.:

    $mysql = mysql_open(...) or die("Couldn't connect to MySQL");

Obviously not very modern with use of mysql_ ;) But the or operator is still quite handy for this kind of trivial error handling, and it would be great to be able to write e.g.:

    $fp = @fopen($filename, "r") or throw new Exception("Couldn't open file!");

Likewise for and (I think it is less common):

    $somethingWentWrong and throw new Exception("Oh no!");

So I would be happy to see throw become an expression for these reasons, even if it is a bit conceptually weird given it never returns anything! Thanks, Andrea