Re: [RFC] Exception type hint

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022, at 8:35 AM, Dan Ackroyd wrote: > Antoine wrote: >> It could be beneficial for the whole ecosystem to have as well exceptions type hint. > > Here are my short notes on the topic. > > https://github.com/Danack/RfcCodex/blob/master/throws_declaration.md > > tl:dr someone probably needs to come up with a strong reason for why > it would be a good thing. > > On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 at 17:39, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: >> >> We are definitely not ready for that kind of fundamental rethink of how error handling >> works in PHP. > > I dunno. The current model is causing quite a few disagreements and > pain, and you made a good case for how it could be better. > > It'd be a huge piece of work, but a better way of handling errors > would be a significant improvement for PHP. Oh there's definitely room to improve PHP's error handling, no question. I just don't know that PHP is, at this time, capable of the "coherent multi-step roadmap so that different features dovetail together to result in more than the sum of their parts" planning that would be required to do it right. :-) --Larry Garfield