Re: Exceptions and Errors

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, George Schlossnagle wrote: > On Apr 13, 2004, at 4:52 PM, Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg wrote: > > > > I guess I'm confused about why some E_ERRORs are now able to be > > handled in userland, but only by using exceptions. > > It's important to note that this is now technically feasible but not > (yet) part of PHP. (You can actually do it as an extension though. :) Okay, so it's just an unenabled feature, not an impossible one. :) > > If these types of errors are now recoverable, shouldn't we let the > > programmer decide how they want to handle them? > > You could, but you'ld break existing scripts that rely on E_ERROR being > fatal in PHP4-ish code. Since exceptions don't exist in PHP4, using > them to avoid previously fatal errors doesn't alter any existing > behavior. Right. This makes sense. Nobody wants to fix up old programs because they died in PHP 4, but live in PHP 5. That's a waste of time, compared to adding another error level. -adam -- adam@trachtenberg.com author of o'reilly's php cookbook avoid the holiday rush, buy your copy today!