note 57304 deleted from language.exceptions by bjori

From: Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:25:46 +0000
Subject: note 57304 deleted from language.exceptions by bjori
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Note Submitter: Carlos Konstanski ---- Being able to catch the exception up the call stack from where it is thrown is a good idea, in that it lets you handle the exception closer to where it ought to be handled - in the calling code. Not as good as common lisp though, where you can call a condition handler that resides up the stack without actually unwinding the stack. With this additional feature, you have the lexical environment at the point where the exception occured, combined with the relocation of the handler to a place where the lower-level function's failure can be addressed from the standpoint of the calling code. Even so, this fluke of PHP that lets you place the try...catch block up the stack from the actual point of error could be used to implement a neat shift in error-handling architecture, where the caller gets to decide how to proceed after an error.

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