Re: Re: PHP5->PHP4 converter (was Re: [PEAR-DEV] Re: [PEPr] Comment on Networking::GeoIP)

Hans Lellelid wrote:

... But it won't really work with the error handling because you can't convert Exceptions (w/o lots of work!). Every call to a method that throws an Exception would need to check return value & re-return if PEAR::isError($return).

Exceptions are one of the more nasty convertable elements: - however using return $this->raiseError($msg) ( which throws an error or lazy loads PEAR & returns pear error.) and generally using boolean returns should make reasonably small packages possible to be written in PHP5, and convertable to PHP4, with minimal inconvenience. I suspect packages like calendar, if ever PHP5'ized may be too big to use this.. - but it provides a good bridge (considering 80% of the packages are < 5 classes at present.) Regards alan

Hans

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