Re: type hinting throwing a fatal error
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:00:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: type hinting throwing a fatal error | ||
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On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Johannes Schlueter wrote:
> On Monday 08 August 2005 15:04, Tobias Schlitt wrote:
> > > The throw an Exception when SPL disabled and an InvalidArgumentException
> > > when it is enabled.
> >
> > That's senseless when writing applications that shall be version
> > independant. Just sticking to Exception should be fine.
>
> No it is not, in your application you can still simply catch Exception to be
> independent of SPL since the InvalidArgumentException class extends the
> Exception class.
Throwing two different kinds of Exceptions is evil. It should be
consistent, not relying on an external component for it's exceptions. So
it will be a normal Exception. This is a useles branch of this tread -
and it should end now.
Derick
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