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ID: 32100 Comment by: andrew dot feller at gmail dot com Reported by: ceefour at gauldong dot net Summary: Request 'finally' support for exceptions Status: Closed Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Feature/Change Request Operating System: * PHP Version: 5.* Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: The demand for "finally" is a symptom of PHP not officially and explicitly addressing supported solutions to managing resources. I cannot find anything within PHP documentation to address this: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.decon.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.misc.php So I recommend to move beyond inclusion of finalizers and start with educating constituents because there is an opportunity to resolve this and hopefully improve quality of work done by developers Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-01-02 12:02:49] frederic dot hardy at mageekbox dot net I'm not sure that this place is the right place to discuss about that. Since the last year, PHP has a process to discuss technical point, aka RFC (https://wiki.php.net/rfc). So, if "finally" must be included in PHP, just write the relative RFC and discuss it on internals. Sure that time has changed, because PHP's users are more power now than in the past ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-12-08 17:40:44] antoninweb at gmail dot com I don't understand how this is not included when PHP supports try...catch. It just doesn't makes sense and it's annoying because you have to find ways around it contantly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-12-06 05:50:29] ben at last dot fm "finally" would be a majorly beneficial addition to the language. It's something we yearn for here at last.fm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-12-05 17:55:43] php dot net at kenman dot net +1 >From Zeev, in the 2000 discussion: > try..finally doesn't make much sense in the context of PHP [...] Nobody has > ever asked for this in the past either. Those days are long past, please take this bug report's comments as a sign that this *does* now make sense for PHP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-12-05 15:53:28] topaz dot php dot bugs at lt3 dot us Ugly workaround hack time! (This is not a substitute for a real language feature!) Mix and match with try/catch blocks as necessary. <?php // Usage examples // With no lambda functions <5.3, we do this instead :( function example_finally() { print "Finally was called!\n"; } function example1() { $finally = new Finally("example_finally"); print "Not throwing exception.\n"; $finally->invoke(); print "Example 1 ended normally.\n"; } function example2() { $finally = new Finally("example_finally"); print "Throwing exception!\n"; throw new Exception("Something exceptional happened!"); $finally->invoke(); print "Example 2 ended normally.\n"; } // Test harness print "Example 1...\n"; try { example1(); } catch (Exception $e) { print "Example 1 threw an exception!\n"; } print "\nExample 2...\n"; try { example2(); } catch (Exception $e) { print "Example 2 threw an exception!\n"; } // Implementation of the Finally class class Finally { private $_callback = NULL; private $_args = array(); function __construct($callback, array $args = array()) { if (!is_callable($callback)) { throw new Exception("Callback was not callable!"); } $this->_callback = $callback; $this->_args = $args; } public function invoke() { if ($this->_callback) { call_user_func_array($this->_callback, $args); $this->_callback = NULL; $this->_args = array(); } } function __destruct() { $this->invoke(); } } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32100 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32100&edit=1
