Re: [Zend Engine 2] Type hints revisited [IllegalArgumentException instead of E_ERROR]

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 17:58, Andi Gutmans wrote: > At 05:16 PM 3/27/2003 +0100, Timm Friebe wrote: > >I've implemented an additional feature for type hints that will throw an > >exception instead of bailing out in case an incorrect type is passed. > > I don't see any major advantage in doing this. I think we should keep PHP > error handling the same as in PHP 4 and leave exceptions in user-land. > Otherwise we'll end up having an unmanageable hybrid because there's no way > we're going to change the error-handling of the existing internal > functions. The majority of our user base is still functional, please don't > forget this. I feel that people here tend to forget that. Well, the problem about E_ERROR is, of course, that it bails out instantaneously and there is no way to catch it in userland. I unsterstand your arguments, though, but since type hints are for classes only ATM (it was argued against being able to hint simple, scalar types), we're in OO-land anyway; and there, Exceptions prevail over warnings and/or errors:) - Timm