Okay, I agree with you on this one. Very weird behaviour by the way.. I didn't know about this.
"Alan Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > aghh.. - the previous example was crap > > The priciple it was try to make was that > > .... > require_once 'MyException.php' > throw MyException(....); > .... > > then trying to catch MyException leads to a parse error when it's > try()'d and not loaded. means we cant lazy load any Exceptions, and save > file io/memory etc. > > Regards > Alan > > Alan Knowles wrote: > > > This is a simple example of why making a parse error out of undefined > > Exception types is going to be very problematic. > > > > function test($a) { > > > > if (!extension_exists('sqlite')) { > > return; > > } > > try { > > SQLite::query($a); > > // parse error!!! - if we dont have sqlite, we dont have > > SQLite exception! > > > > } catch(SQLite_Exception $e) { > > > > echo "problem with query"; > > return; > > } > > } > > > > > > This has a big knock on effect that we can not lazy load Exception > > definitions, even if they are only used in Exceptional situations. > > (its pretty much the same issue as instanceof - forcing the loading of > > code, that may never be used, except to test it's non-existance.) > > > > Regards > > Alan > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
