Re: Exceptions and Errors

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, John Coggeshall wrote: > As a matter of consistency, I would like to suggest that for those > extensions which have a OO/procedural syntax that the non-fatal errors > generated by those extensions be thrown as Exceptions when called from > an OO syntax. I have already committed such a change to Tidy, and I > can't see any serious reason why such a change can't be implemented for > internal classes. > > Feedback welcome. I think it's a stupid idea (actually OO is a stupid idea but that's something for another dicussion ;-): 1. In order to silently ignore failed queries you still have to put a stupid try..except block around it. 2. KISS: PHP is supposed to be SIMPLE; with all thos advanced OO stuff writing scripts for PHP starts becoming less and less easy. Sure, they are already using OO but that's just a notation. Some extensions are only OO, like DOM, but that doesn't mean that every Joe Average has any idea on what exceptions are. Please, kepe things simple. Don't force people. Derick