Hi. it was mentioned multiple times on the list, that exceptions from php core is prohibited. do we have some documentation about this? the more detailed email on this topic was from Lukas: http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg43237.html
"Generally we have decided to leave Exceptions out of core with a few "exceptions": 1) errors in the constructor will throw an exception 2) extensions may choose to offer an Exception mode (see PDO) I never understood why we did 1), if a constructor can fail, then a factory should be used instead. But oh well. With 2) you are obviously also opening a pandoras box, that is similar to using a global error handler that turns all Notices, Warnings etc as Exception: you can easily break code that calls various libraries .. take for example passing in a PDO instance to one library which expects the normal error mode and another one that enables the Exception mode. For the most part however we can conclude that most libraries enable the Exception mode in PDO and I think you will be hard pressed to find any PDO code example that doesn't assume that the Exception mode is enabled. " every other mention about this topic is in-general prohibits the usage of exceptions. http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg49637.html http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg44159.html so I would like to know, that what is the current situation, and do these mails still holds true. maybe things has changed. Tyrael
