Re: type hinting throwing a fatal error

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Zeev Suraski wrote: > Calling to a function with the wrong arguments is something that should be > dealt with when developing the application, not at runtime. I think that > throwing exceptions in all sorts of places encourages people to write > 'exception-oriented' apps, which is very messy. Type hinting is also not > exactly an OO thing, it's an object thing, and there's a difference. PHP is > filling up with a lot of builtin classes, as well as infrastructure classes, > that actually simplify the lives of users, without them having to have a clue > about object orientation. Some examples that come to mind are SimpleXML, the > SOAP classes and PDO. On a long enough timescale - everybody using PHP will > be using objects, and many (if not most) of them will be using them in > procedural apps. I see a big negative point in forcibly introducing these > people to the concept of exceptions. I agree a 100% here. > I believe we mentioned once the possibility of adding another error level, > which is fatal - but still catchable by set_error_handler(). That is a good > idea (which we should be doing either way). That would work well. I just want the type hints to be catchable. regards, Derick