Re: [VOTE] Exceptions in the engine

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Stanislav Malyshev > <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi! >> >>> There's nothing that prevents us from reneging on that by another >>> vote. If it's a bad decision backed by logical arguments then we can >> >> That's a pretty big if, given that your only argument - that it is a BC >> break - is incorrect, as in fact the set of exceptions caught before and >> after change is exactly the same, and the only difference is that in the >> new code, you can *also* catch errors, the option that you didn't have >> before. Absent that argument, there's no reason to renege. > > You are incorrect. The set of exceptions that catch (Exception) > catches is all exceptions by its definition. By altering it to no > longer include all exceptions means the semantics of it changed. From our manual (http://php.net/manual/en/language.exceptions.php): > The thrown object must be an instance of the Exception class or a subclass of Exception.