Re: type hinting throwing a fatal error

Hello George, Monday, August 22, 2005, 10:10:24 PM, you wrote: > On Aug 22, 2005, at 4:02 PM, Derick Rethans wrote: >> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, George Schlossnagle wrote: >> >> >>>> I'm talking about allowing type hints to be trappable by users, >>>> without >>>> complicating them with exceptions. I'm proposing a new error >>>> level, which >>>> behaves like E_ERROR, except it can be caught using a userland error >>>> handler, for those cases where the engine/PHP are in a stable state. >>>> >>> >>> This sounds good to me. We talked about this briefly a year or so >>> ago, in >>> reference to being able to convert E_ERROR errors to exceptions in an >>> extension. >>> >> >> Right, my current patch allows you do to that for the new >> "E_CATCHABLE" >> error. I don't like the name though, so we need to come up with a >> better >> one (sorry Zeev :) . > My original proposal (at least as I recall it), was to move > irrecoverable errors to something like > E_UNRECOVERABLE_ERROR > or > E_FATAL > Leaving current errors as E_ERROR (since most are recoverable, imho) Exact same here. And i asked for that before, too (w/o answer iirc). Best regards, Marcus