On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Charlie Somerville
<char...@charliesomerville.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 7:49 PM, Paul Dragoonis wrote:
>
> Why is your try block only going to contain 1 line, and that's
> throwing an exception??
>
> try
> throw new Exception('foobar');
> catch(Exception $e)
>
> Because it's a contrived example. He's not trying to write real code, he's
> trying to demonstrate his point - and you totally missed that
You're right, I totally missed that point.
>
> Braces are a good thing, they give structure and stop people from
> mis-reading things and writing bugs, the same can be said for the if()
> situation.
>
> 1) Braces are good.
>
> This is subjective. There are some cases where it might improve code
> readability to drop the braces for a single-statement try/catch.
>
> There's certainly no technical barrier to doing this. I'm not familiar with
> PHP's parser, but I'd imagine there would be some kind of 'statement'
> non-terminal that would handle single statements as well as a braced group
> of statements.
Same sentiments as from Rafael, bracket-less is bug-prone.
>
> 2) Try with only one line in it to throw an exception doesn't seem
> like a realistic situation.
>
> There could be some utility to this. For example, as well as having post-fix
> if, unless, etc., Ruby also has a post-fix 'rescue'. Here's a silly example
> of its use:
>
> some_var = foo.bar rescue "oops"
>
> If 'foo.bar' threw an exception, some_var would contain "oops" instead.
>
> I think PHP could benefit from having a single statement try form. I often
> turn to PHP for quick and dirty scripts when I need to do something with
> little fuss. I think having try/catch support brace-less single statements
> would help increase consistency in PHP's syntax, as well as be useful in
> certain situations.
>
> On Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 7:49 PM, Paul Dragoonis wrote:
>
>
> -1 from me, sorry Hoa.
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa
> <ivan.ender...@hoa-project.net> wrote:
>
> Hi internals,
>
> As you certainly know, brackets defining blocks in PHP are optional if
> blocks contain a single instruction. Thus:
>
> if($condition) {
> echo 'foobar';
> }
>
> is strictly equivalent to:
>
> if($condition)
> echo 'foobar';
>
> But this syntactic sugar is not applied uniformly to all PHP language
> constructions. I have the try/catch couple in mind.
> First, I would like to know why it is not possible to write:
>
> try
> throw new Exception('foobar');
> catch(Exception $e)
> var_dump($e->getMessage());
>
> as a strict equivalence of:
>
> try {
> throw new Exception('foobar');
> }
> catch(Exception $e) {
> var_dump($e->getMessage());
> }
>
> Second, if it is possible, could we plan to have this “feature” (uniformity
> actually) in PHP6 (or maybe before)?
>
> Best regards.
>
> --
> Ivan Enderlin
> Developer of Hoa
> http://hoa.42/ or http://hoa-project.net/
>
> PhD. student at DISC/Femto-ST (Vesontio) and INRIA (Cassis)
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>
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>
>
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