"Derick Rethans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Ron Korving wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> You can still clean up your memory before throwing the exception...
Actually, no. Even this shows the problem:
foreach ($data as $line)
{
unset($data);
throw new Exception("error");
}
> > 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.
>
> It's not easy at all, it would basically mean a full rewrite of the
> engine's refcounting/garbage collection system, and also redoing all
> extensions to use this mechanism. I think that's a bit too much to ask
> just so that you don't get a leak if you're doing something 'weird'.
I never thought it would be easy. And I'm not saying it must be fixed. But I
do think, more on the philosophical level as a programmer, that the engine
"should" be able to deal with that situation.
Ron
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