Re: exceptions instead of errors

What is the point of having a new error type? How does that differ semantically from just throwing an exception? The only way I could see something like this working is exceptions=E_ALL|~E_NOTICE which would throw an exception on all non-notice errors. I think this would be a Bad Idea though, as it is much less intuitive than throwing exceptions on E_ERROR in a try block or when set_exception_handler has set a final exception handler. George On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 08:16 PM, John Coggeshall wrote:

I don't know if anyone has discussed this in any length or not, but what about adding a new error type (E_EXCEPTION)... I'm 100% for the idea of having PHP throw exceptions internally, however there are E_ERRORs that are indeed fatal in their context and shouldn't be caught. If this different error level existed, it could be treated like an E_ERROR if not within a try{} block, however will still preserve the meaning of the error code and give maintainers an opportunity to change their extensions to support exceptions as appropriate. John -- -~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~--~=~- John Coggeshall

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