Re: [VOTE] RFC: Catchable "call to a member function of a non-object"

Hi Timm, On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Timm Friebe <php@thekid.de> wrote: > a couple of weeks ago, I proposed a change to the handling of the situation > where methods are called on non-objects. Instead of an E_ERROR, the engine > would > raise an E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR, and enable framework and library authors to > handle > this. > > An intriguing usecase from my POV is to make use of this in tools like > PHPUnit; > instead of just printing a fatal error in the middle of a test run and > exiting, > the tools can decide to raise an exception and display the very much more > helpful backtrace. No third-party PHP extensions needed for this, just a > simple > set_error_handler() call [1]. > > I've verified various places like phpdbg and added a bunch of tests and am > glad > to extend that should anyone come up with a situation he/she feel this > would > behave in an unstable manner; athough this is realized in a somewhat > similar > manner to type hint mismatches, which have proven to be quite stable. > > Anyhow, I'd now like to see where we'd come out at and would kindly ask > you to > vote for or against inclusion of this feature: > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/catchable-call-to-member-of-non-object#vote > > Thanks in advance! > I like the idea. Only thing that I don't like is it depends on error message to be useful rather than error code/status. Was this discussed? Just curious. Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohgaki@ohgaki.net