Re: Type hinting

Hi! > Pretty much everywhere. Suppose you have form with, say, 2 fields and first > field does not validate. Maybe you want to check the second field too and > give the user both errors if they are both wrong? > > In general, looking at strict typing as user input validation mechanism is a > very bad idea. There are specialized use input validation > functions/classes/frameworks, and one should use them. Right, that was my point. I can't think of any good reason to use exceptions rather than global errors (E_NOTICE or E_STRICT or similar), but some people seem to want exceptions. I was asking them if they had use valid cases (e.g. *not* data validation or similar which is undoubtably foolish) that would merit using exceptions rather than the global error handling.