Re: A better error handling approach.

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com> wrote: > It's already possible to do so now without any modifications to the core: It was already possible to declare arrays, but the new, shorter array syntax still brings a smile to my face :) Few new language features actually add things that weren't possible before. > If the functions are wrapped to return an array we have to update the > documentation for thousands of functions as well as break user space for > millions of users. Now array_map('file',$files) has a convoluted error state > problem. This isn't as simple of a change as you're making it out to be. > I'm sure every approach has merit. The problem here is the return on > investment for implementing such a change in PHP. It's a lot of work for > very little benefit. I was speaking of user-space libraries/code. I'm not expecting all of PHP core to change. I believe making the changes to the parser to facilitating this approach in user-space code would be worth the effort, and user-space libraries could normalize the error approach as they see fit. Adam