Re: exceptions instead of errors

hi, > Just a note that I'd really like to see this. One of the great things > about exceptions will be: > > try { > $m = mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pass"); > $sth = mysql_query("select bar from foo", $m); > while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sth)) { > echo $row[0]; > } > mysql_close($m); > } catch (exception $e) { > echo $e->getMessage(); > } > > This allows you to remove all the nasty if ($conn) could, and move your > error handling into a singular place. [..] Read more here: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/exceptions/definition.html Basically try/catch-statements allow you to keep the main code block short and readable because the error handling code is moved somewhere else. Would be nice seeing this in PHP. -daniel