Re: Exceptions and Errors

Hello Sterling, Thursday, April 15, 2004, 7:55:17 AM, you wrote: > On Apr 14, 2004, at 10:36 PM, Thies C.Arntzen wrote: >> if ctors are the only place that *cannot* life without exceptions it >> would be well worth *fixing* (yes, i said fix), as adding >> "understanding exceptions" to the list of pre-requisites for >> learning/using php would just be a poor decision looking at what made >> php as popular as it is today. > the solution there would not be to "fix" ctor, but instead to use a > factory, and have constructors without logic. the other case where one > can't live without exceptions is when using overloads (solution: don't > use overloads when you care about signaling error conditions). > couldn't agree more btw, i think exceptions are cool, and certainly > have their usages, but after reading the comments on this thread, i > think we are about to hand out cocaine to children. hopefully one hit > is enough ;-) > either way its rc2, not much can be done now... When i started the OO model of SQLite i explicitly choose ctors with logic over the factory attempt because the latter prevents inheritance from the beginning at least in the case of overloaded php objects. regards marcus