I concur. - David
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Korving [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 2:53 PM > To: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: drastic memory consumption with a > sequenceofexceptions > > My situation is parsing a number of XML-reports. If parsing goes wrong in > any way (XML parsing fails, XML validation fails, database insertion > fails), > I want to throw an exception. There's a script that batch-processes these > files. I want to collect exceptions and give that feedback to the user. I > wouldn't consider this bad practice myself (but of course, I'm not very > objective in this situation). > > Even if I'm wrong about that, I'm not the only PHP-user and it's my humble > opinion that the engine should be solid enough to deal with this. > > Ron > > > "Derick Rethans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Ron Korving wrote: > > > > > Perhaps it would require an revised garbage collection mechanism? If > that's > > > the case and you think it's worth investing time in, I think it would > be > > > something for the next major version (6). > > > > I think it would be better not to abuse Exceptions like this. They are > > for exceptional states, which should result in a graceful shutdown of > > your application. In that case 'leaking' the memory to the end of the > > request isn't a real problem anyway. > > > > Derick > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
