Re: my take on PHP 6, part 2

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: > >> Warnings? Both?), make errors not so damn expensive and fix @ to be much >>> >more lean-and-mean than it is now. >>> >> Kill it could be an option too. I see the need of @ as a design failure. >> > > Is ICU an indication of how this should be handled as well. Being able to > switch exceptions off in intl demonstrates that they may not be necessary.. > > a library which is built around supporting exceptions can work, but currently we have a bunch of code (both in the core and in userland), which doesn't support that. errors can support the execution of the execution, which means allowing to have return values, or emiting multiple errors from the same call, with exceptions you can't do that, as the execution will jump to the next catch block (or to the global exception handler). I don't think I have seen any proposal so far which would solve these issues, yet people still talking about like replacing the current error handling infrastructure with exceptions would be a viable alternative. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu