Re: Re: PHP5: PEAR base Exception classes

On 6/17/04 7:48 AM Pacific Time, Hans Lellelid (hans@velum.net) wrote: > 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. Have you guys looked at PEAR_ErrorStack? It has the capability to specify an exception class to be thrown -- seems like anything like a collection of exception types should extend PEAR_ErrorStack in some way. -- Killersoft.com