note 96446 deleted from language.oop5.decon by cmb

Note Submitter: thomasrutter ---- The manual page says that throwing an exception from a destructor causes a fatal error; I've found that this only happens when the exception is _uncaught_ within the context of that destructor. If you catch it within that same destructor it seems to be fine. This is equally true of other contexts, such as: - shutdown functions set with register_shutdown_function - destructors - custom session close functions - custom error handlers - perhaps other similar contexts An exception normally 'bubbles up' to higher and higher contexts until it is caught, but because a destructor or shutdown function is called not within execution flow but in response to a special PHP event, the exception is unable to be traced back any further than the destructor or shutdown function in which it is called.