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

Well, if set_error_handler could catch E_ERROR errors (and not bail), then errors could be changed to exceptions in user space. I already use this in the soap library to catch invalid parameters, which I beleive are only warnings. Not being able to catch exceptions on type hints will make them pretty useless to me. Shane 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. Andi