On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 17:58, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> At 05:16 PM 3/27/2003 +0100, Timm Friebe wrote:
> >I've implemented an additional feature for type hints that will throw an
> >exception instead of bailing out in case an incorrect type is passed.
> 
> I don't see any major advantage in doing this. I think we should keep PHP 
> error handling the same as in PHP 4 and leave exceptions in user-land. 
> Otherwise we'll end up having an unmanageable hybrid because there's no way 
> we're going to change the error-handling of the existing internal 
> functions. The majority of our user base is still functional, please don't 
> forget this. I feel that people here tend to forget that.

Well, the problem about E_ERROR is, of course, that it bails out
instantaneously and there is no way to catch it in userland.

I unsterstand your arguments, though, but since type hints are for
classes only ATM (it was argued against being able to hint simple,
scalar types), we're in OO-land anyway; and there, Exceptions prevail
over warnings and/or errors:)

- Timm


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