Re: Assertions

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > In addition to all that you've said, I should point out that both Java and > Python have an assert statement which raises an exception, which happens to > be called AssertionError in both languages. And in Python you can subclass an int. This does not make that a good idea for PHP. (Java only wishes it could subclass int, hence Integer.) In Java, for better or for worse, every error is an exception. This does not make that a good idea for PHP. (Shrill voice) "If all your friends jumped off a bridge…" Should require($myFile) throw an exception too? (Some people, perhaps many, would say yes.) What about parse errors in a file include()d at runtime? Thanks!