Heya, I voted "NO" due to previous discussion. TL;DR: this is FAR off the 80/20 use-case for a language syntax change.
C&P from my answer elsewhere: The following typical example is something REALLY rare, and requiring a parser change for it seems excessive: try { // ... } catch (InvalidArgumentException $e) { // same handling } catch (PDOException $e) { // same handling } catch (BadMethodCallException $e) { // same handling } These 3 exceptions usually result in separate handling anyway. If same handling is needed, you can as usual extract a private method (if you are in a class) and deal with it there: try { // ... } catch (InvalidArgumentException $e) { $this->sameHandling($e); } catch (PDOException $e) { $this->sameHandling($e); } catch (BadMethodCallException $e) { $this->sameHandling($e); } private function sameHandling(Throwable $caught) { // same handling } Still, even in this case, I'd flag it up in a code review, as same handling for 3 different exception types generally (not always) means something is really wrong. So we are building a feature for a 1% case that, while simple to implement at parser-level in PHP, requires changes in all userland libraries that do parsing or rely on the AST. Cheers, Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/ On 18 April 2016 at 01:08, Dan Ackroyd <dan...@basereality.com> wrote: > I voted yes. > > It's really not that common that I have to do stuff in exception > handling, when I do need to do some clearing up, or checking to see if > the operation that threw the exception needs to be re-tried, having to > repeat that code in all of the catch statements that need it, is just > nasty duplication. > > Although it's a small change, having this is a very nice small > improvement that doesn't break anyone's existing code. > > Thanks for putting it forward. > > cheers > Dan > > > On 17 April 2016 at 17:51, Bronisław Białek <afte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Internals, > > > > We've opened the vote on https://wiki.php.net/rfc/multiple-catch > > Voting will end on 2015-05-01 > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Bronisław Białek. > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >