Re: PEAR's Error Handling and PHP5

Lukas Smith wrote: > anyways the point was: > if we add support for this (which means adding an isInstanceOf() method > to all classes) then the choice is in the hands of the user. if we dont > then it isnt unless we stick with PEAR_Error. remember we can throw > execeptions from a PEAR_Error callback and not the other way around. Another option would simply be that you, the developer [who would prefer to have PEAR_Error returned], can use your proxy idea to wrap any object that throws exceptions and have them returned as PEAR_Error. (I was sure I posted that suggestion to your blog, but I guess it never showed up?) Either way, though, the problem I see with proxy classes in PHP is that they are not very seamless: 1) you cannot use instanceof (as you note) or any of the class introspection functions; 2) you cannot use type hints; and 3) proxied classes can't make use of the SPL interfaces. I'm sure there are other problems too, but that already cuts out a fair number of the new PHP5 OO features. Since we're only talking about PHP5 anyway, it doesn't make sense to me to dumb down the OO features available to packages in an attempt to make everyone happy. (Of course, on that note, I also consider PEAR_Error to be a dumbing down of the OO features of PHP5.) Hans