Hi (note: your message was flagged as spam),

> https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/8843

So I understand it as having a "true code" equivalent for the
`@throws` phpDoc comment (similar to type declarations for `@param`
and `@return`)? which would also be checked at run-time?

Just my 2 cents on that (let's call it "exception specification"):

  1. IMHO, it shouldn't be mixed in the return type declaration (with
a union-like syntax) but separated and independent (e.g. with a
`throws` keyword, and pipes [or commas] between multiple exception
classes)
  2. AFAIK, Java has it (mandatory to compile for "checked
exceptions", sometimes controversial), C++ used to have it
(runtime-checked) but dropped it (and introduced `noexcept` instead);
I don't know of any dynamic language that has it

You would also need to define how it plays with inheritance (and
reflection), and what exactly should happen when a function throws an
exception it didn't "declare"...

PS: I also found some old feature requests:
  - https://externals.io/message/4424
  - https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42251
  - https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62404
  - https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67312

Regards,

-- 
Guilliam Xavier

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