Re: RE: Announcing RFC 'Anonymous Catches'

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Joost Koehoorn <joost.koehoorn@gmail.com>wrote: > On 25 juni 2013 at 22:06:40, Sherif Ramadan (theanomaly.is@gmail.com) > wrote: > > > So this entire discussion can be summed up nicely with "Let's make the > variable optional because... why not?". > Correct. The tweet was actually a serious request and grounded (see > http://news.php.net/php.webmaster/16092 as an earlier response > to you). > So the reason to make it optional is not really "why not?", there is some > reasoning behind it. > All of those reasons are pretty much a circuitous justification for writing bad code, in my opinion. None of the things mentioned in that mail are an actual reason for why you would need to remove the variable, to be completely frank. Primarily the reason I chose not to respond to it. When the argument is "we need to remove it because I'm not using it" there really is no argument here.