Hello Christian,

Thursday, April 15, 2004, 1:15:03 PM, you wrote:

> Andi Gutmans wrote:
>> I don't think allowing the return of anything except for the object 
>> itself is *fixing* PHP.

> No, being able to fail and return would not be fixing it. It would be 
> extending it to allow people to avoid exceptions for this simple case.

The problem is that you would have to redefine basic understood oo concepts
as implemented in php 5 at the moment.

>> For example, in the SOAP extension it is very useful that in the 
>> SoapServer you can throw an exception and that'll create a SOAP error. 
>> Any other value you return will be the SOAP result. This is a perfect 
>> place for exceptions.

> I tempted to challenge you to give me an example usage which I could 
> rewrite without exceptions, making it simpler and/or fixing problems ;-)

> - Chris




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