Re: Re: Are exceptions allowed in php core?

On 09/01/2012 05:44 PM, Gustavo Lopes wrote: > More importantly, there is no other satisfactory solution (except a > fatal error). foreach has no return value, so it has no other way to > signal a failure. If we used a notice or a warning here what would > happen is that code that used generators with an invalid state would, > except for the notice, work as if it had been given an empty iterator. > Put another way, it would fail with only a notice, and continue. That is > a far more serious problem. In other circumstances where we emit > warnings, we usually have a return value the caller can check for error > conditions. This is the real question here. It actually isn't about Exceptions at all. It is whether trying to iterate a closed generator should be a fatal error that breaks script execution right then and there. Whether that is done as an exception or a fatal error isn't actually all that relevant since the end result will be the same for most people. If everyone is in agreement that this should be a fatal error (I don't personally get why it has to be fatal) then lets just make it a fatal error and when we come up with a decent proposal for turning recoverable fatals into exceptions language-wide we can revisit this. And this might even be in the same release, so... -Rasmus