Re: [RFC] Performance improvements

Jordi Boggiano wrote:

On 20.04.2010 12:41, Derick Rethans wrote:

You're writing that the ZEND_CATCH opcode has to be used with a constant class name, so how would "catch ( self $e )" be represented in op-codes now?

I dropped such possibility. Does someone use it? For me it looks useless. If it's really necessary I can try not to drop it.

You have a point, it looks quite useless. But of course, I am sure somebody has used this :)

FWIW, Google Code Search returns no such thing as far as I could see, it obviously doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but if it triggers a parse error or something clear enough to the eventual unlucky guy that did use it, I guess it might be an acceptable BC break.

Of course $ sapi/cli/php -n -r 'try {} catch (self $e) {}' Fatal error: Bad class name in the catch statement in Command line code on line 1 Thanks. Dmitry.

Cheers, Jordi