Re: RE: Unicode conversion exceptions and memory leaks

On 4/14/06, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > In general, exceptions as result of type conversion are good. I disagree here, exceptions are... exceptions. That means they should be used in rare cases. Unicode (and string manipulation in gerenal) should not use exceptions. I see no cases which justify an exception. > Half year ago we disabled exceptions in __toString() especially because of > this reason. > I prefer disable exceptions for unicode conversions too. Same here, and even if PHP will allow it. String manipulations (unicode included) must remain a quiet and easy operation. This should be a goal for each extensions, give a way to make PHP silent (by default or not does not matter but it must be settable). --Pierre