Re: exception policy for core

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I remember that we discussed the question of exception throwing from core in > the very early days of php 5, when the suggestion of turning all errors into > exceptions first came up. I remember that we decided that exceptions should > only be thrown from core on constructor errors by default. Along the lines of > PDO, extensions could allow users to explicitly enable an exception mode. > > This popped up again as I picked up on IRC that the imagick extension is quite > exception throwing happy. I do realize that this is a pecl extension, so maybe > core rules do not apply (core<->pecl relations should also be addressed ASAP > if you ask me). > > Anywas, am I remembering things correctly? Is this still our policy? If not do > we have (want?) a policy? In my opinion, this is still the policy that should be added to the CS. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org