For all the reasons already stated, most explicitly because it make the
code ugly as sin, my vote is somewhere between "No", and "Hell No."
-1 on bracketless try/catch
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:44 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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