Why not. But it will come in addition to "resume", not instead of it.
Then:
- "resume" => continue execution just after the point where the exception
was raised.
- "restart" => restart the whole try block.
I don't understand the meaning of your "rollback".
2013/4/29 Camilo Sperberg <unrea...@gmail.com>
>
> On Apr 28, 2013, at 17:27, Julien Pauli <jpa...@php.net> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Amaury Bouchard <ama...@amaury.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 2013/4/27 Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@gmail.com>
> >>
> >>> please don't reuse the continue keyword for it.
> >>>
> >>> There are a bunch of code out there where which uses exceptions in a
> loop
> >>> context.
> >>> For example you have a retry counter decremented in a loop and you
> catch
> >>> the exceptions and retry until the retry limit is reached.
> >>>
> >> Fair enough. We can use "resume".
> >>
> >
> > "continue" is just a keyword (syntactic sugar) we sure can change, I like
> > "resume" yes :-)
> >
> > Julien.Pauli
>
> And how about a restart instead of resume? I have used try catch blocks as
> a type of transactional block, so I think it would be nice if I could
> restart the entire block instead of resuming from the last point where it
> failed:
>
> $blue = 'blue';
> try {
> $data = a($blue);
> b($data); // This throws the dataIntegrityException
> c();
> } catch (dataIntegrityException $e) {
> $blue = 'is the new red';
> restart; // executes a(), b() and c() again
> } catch (Exception $e) {
> rollback();
> }
>
> Greetings.
