Re: Error handling brainstorming

> 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 > Exceptions allow you to decide: I know how to handle it -> deal with it, I don't know how to handle it -> pop up to higher layer who might know I didn't know this case needs to be handled -> pop up to handler of last resort, either crash or catch-all and at least present some meaningful info on what happened. That's managable. Of course you can probably do most stuff with error code handling, PEAR_Error & Friends, error handlers for really bad stuff. We've been doing this before Exceptions. But wherever it makes sense, I tend to use them.