On Mon, Jul 28, 2025, at 6:48 AM, Rokas Šleinius wrote: > | real-world example of a use-case you want to enable > > Say I am implementing a job runner, I do its error handling, and I want > to enrich the caught exception with additional helpful data for > debugging. In this process I create a custom exception > MyJobHandlerException, but the trace of the new exception includes my > handler code, which the end user does not care about. I wish to > overwrite the trace of the new MyJobHandlerException instance with the > trace from the originally caught exception, but I cannot. > > I was always sure that the reason behind all methods of \Exception > being final is Larry-Garfield-blogpost length/depth so I never bothered > to ask and made workarounds.
Hey, I resemble that remark! :-P (I actually have no idea what the original reason was for making so much of Exceptions final.) I'm not sure if this would cover what you're talking about, but I did start a discussion about lightweight exceptions a few months ago. I didn't go anywhere: https://externals.io/message/127188 --Larry Garfield
