Re: RE: Unicode conversion exceptions and memory leaks
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:24:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RE: Unicode conversion exceptions and memory leaks | ||
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We had a .. bit of discussion on IRC about this. I will post my reply soon, once I've had sufficient time to cool down.
-Andrei
On Apr 14, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Andi Gutmans wrote:
Amen. At 09:40 AM 4/14/2006, Pierre wrote: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() especiallybecause ofthis 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