Re: Make try/catch brackets optinal

For all the reasons already stated, most explicitly because it make the code ugly as sin, my vote is somewhere between "No", and "Hell No." -1 on bracketless try/catch On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa < ivan.enderlin@hoa-project.net> wrote: > 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/ > > Member of HTML and WebApps Working Group of W3C > http://w3.org/ > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >