Re: Re: PHP5: PEAR base Exception classes

From:	Hans Lellelid	Date:	Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:48:36 +0000
Subject:	Re: Re: PHP5: PEAR base Exception classes
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Hi David,

I am hardly an "Exceptions expert" (as you already know) but I am writing a new package for PEAR (PHP 5 only) and I am now using throw new Exception (); which result in a pretty ugly message to the user.

Well, the idea is that the exception is supposed to be caught! :) It should never get to the top-level & show the ugly message that you mention. *Plus* that ugly message is extremely useful as it contains the trace, represented as a string.

If someone wants me to try this new exception handling class and use it for the proposal, by all means I will be glad to try it out.

I personally don't like this idea, but perhaps Michael can give you some pointers. I'm all for removing dependencies, as I think that the base Exception class works the way it should. Hans