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

Please lets have exceptions here, otherwise you will render type-hints useless (they are intended primarily for OO programmers anyway). I'm somewhat concerned that we are implementing a lot of the new OO features in a half-hearted fashion; I understand that there is a balance to maintain between easy-accessibility and "enterprise" features. I've mentioned several times now that unhandled exceptions look just like E_ERRORS to procedural/non-OO programmers; please can we have the new OO-related features throw exceptions rather than trigger E_ERRORS as it allows "real" programmers to write more robust code. --Wez. On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, 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.