Make try/catch brackets optinal
| From: | Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa | Date: | Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:44:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Make try/catch brackets optinal | ||
| Groups: | php.internals | ||
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Hi internals,
As you certainly know, brackets defining blocks in PHP are optional if blocks contain a single instruction. Thus:
if($condition) {
echo 'foobar';
}
is strictly equivalent to:
if($condition)
echo 'foobar';
But this syntactic sugar is not applied uniformly to all PHP language constructions. I have the try/catch couple in mind.
First, I would like to know why it is not possible to write:
try
throw new Exception('foobar');
catch(Exception $e)
var_dump($e->getMessage());
as a strict equivalence of:
try {
throw new Exception('foobar');
}
catch(Exception $e) {
var_dump($e->getMessage());
}
Second, if it is possible, could we plan to have this “feature” (uniformity actually) in PHP6 (or maybe before)?
Best regards.
--
Ivan Enderlin
Developer of Hoa
http://hoa.42/ or http://hoa-project.net/
PhD. student at DISC/Femto-ST (Vesontio) and INRIA (Cassis)
http://disc.univ-fcomte.fr/ and http://www.inria.fr/
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