PEAR error handling question

Hi, is something like this allowed, or is the only allowed way to handle errors: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/class.pear.php: class Bla extends PEAR {

    var $pear_error;

    function foo()
    {
        ...
        if ($success) {
            return true;
        } else {
            $this->pear_error = $this->raiseError('error 99 change user');
            return false;

        }
    }

} $blo = new Bla; if (!$blo->foo()) {

    echo $blo->pear_error->getMessage();

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