I, too, believes that omitting the exception variable is great.
In addition, anonymous catch blocks will shorten the code of "catch
(Exception $e)" so... is just a simpler way of writing - and that's what
PHP agenda aiming for, doesn't it? be a friendly and readable language.
Reading
try {
$foo->bar();
} catch {
show404Page();
}
For example, is readable, short and not contain any extra variables that we
didn't used.
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Joost Koehoorn <joost.koeho...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just published an RFC that proposes to add catch-statement without
> needing to specify a variable, and support for fully > anonymous catches.
> >
> > Details can be found at:
> >
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/anonymous_catch
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Joost Koehoorn
> >
>
> Hi.
> I am not sure about complete anonymous catch statement (like try { } catch
> { }), but I really like the proposal for omitting the exception variable.
>
> Because in frameworks like Symfony there are defined and used a lot of
> special exception types for each cases.
> Here's an example that shows what I mean:
>
> try {
> $foo->authenticate($user);
> } catch (BadCredentialsException) {
> echo "Bad credentials";
> } catch (InactiveAccount) {
> echo "Sorry, your account is not active anymore.";
> } catch (CurlErrorOnAuthService) {
> echo "Please try again later, the login service is currently
> unavailable.";
> } catch (Exception) {
> echo "bla blubb";
> }
>
> In such a case you do not need any `$e`variable. Netbeans for example
> always highlight's these variables because it is not used anywhere. But I
> think it looks a bit cleaner if the variable could be omitted, if it's not
> needed ;-)
>
> Best regards
> Christian
> This is exactly the reason, yes!
>
> As stated in the RFC, I think it's best that we consider the two ways
> separately. Omitting the variable is a much smaller change (and requires
> very little code changes) than having a fully anonymous catch.
>
> I originally dived into this because of a question of Phil Sturgeon on
> twitter, requesting for making the variable optional. I took it one step
> further and made the whole thing optional, but surely we can decide to only
> make the variable optional, I can see how it's bad programming practice to
> have fully anonymous blocks (even though sometimes they may be used). Just
> throwing this out here to see what you think about it.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Joost
>
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