You are either purposefully exaggerating or not doing it right.
if(fileop1() && fileop2() && fileop3()) {
// do valid stuff
} else {
// do error stuff
}
It's not that hard.
I guess it was my mistake that I simplified my actual code for simplicity's sake. Please show me how would my actual code look stuffed in an "if" statement:
try {
$cacheBaseFile = Core\CACHE_PATH . '/Compiled/' . \str_replace('\\', '-', $symbolName);
// The validator checks whether the cache is fresh.
$cacheIsFresh = include $cacheFileBase . '.val.php';
// Attempt to load the cache (it should be there if the validator is there, unless someone messed with the files).
if ($cacheIsFresh) {
$result = include $cacheFileBase . '.main.php';
} else {
$this->generateCache($symbolName);
...
}
return $result;
} catch (IncludeIOError $e) { // One or more of the files were damaged or missing.
...
}
When you have:
1) comments
2) multiple statements
3) assign variables
4) call functions/methods with long arguments
etc.
...you can't just stuff it in an if (op() && op() && op()) and pretend this is in any way a maintainable code style.
With exceptions:
----------------
try {
fileop1();
fileop2();
fileop3();
normal_actions();
} catch (IOException $e) {
exceptional_actions();
}
Now imagine fileop1 throws some other exception - note that you have no
idea which exceptions are there and nothing guarantees you fileop1
throws only IOException, and by the proposal here, any problem in any
code whatsoever results in exception now, even if the problem was in
converting log message to utf-8 while writing some log inside some
function called by fileop2(). Now your whole app has failed, even though
you don't really care about that log message at all.
Exceptions aren't about log messages, they're about exceptions - error conditions that have to be handled.
If my code above generates another type of exception there are only two options:
1) Either I catch that exception because I know how to handle it -or-
2) I don't catch it, and the app should correctly stop right there before data damage is done.
I know PHP's model is all messed up, but no one here, I believe, is asking about putting non-error log messages in Exceptions. IO failure is an exception.
If your IO operation fails, you can't just log it and plow forward blissfully without handling the problem.
Stan