Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC - making the Exception class abstract

Hi Kevin, Kevin Bradwick wrote: > Too many times have I seen developers throwing Exceptions when what they > really needed was something that gave it context like > InvalidArgumentException or RuntimeException. > > Yes, I agree this is something to tackle at code review (and I do) but > I feel PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC - making the Exception class abstract

Hi! > Too many times have I seen developers throwing Exceptions when what they > really needed was something that gave it context like > InvalidArgumentException or RuntimeException. Yes, I agree this is > something to tackle at code review (and I do) but I feel PHP doesn't help > the situation by

Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC - making the Exception class abstract

Am 17.06.2015 um 23:30 schrieb Anthony Ferrara: > Instead, I think we should solve the problem with education. Perhaps > the documentation can better detail out why devs shouldn't directly > throw exception but instead use typed exceptions...? I remember "all hell breaking lose" when I disallowed

Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC - making the Exception class abstract

On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 17:30 -0400, Anthony Ferrara wrote: > Changing the existing Exception class to be abstract would break a > metric ton of code. Simply on that metric alone it would be a hard > sell. I think you'd need an exceptionally strong justification for it, > beyond "using typed exceptio

Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC - making the Exception class abstract

Kevin, On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Kevin Bradwick wrote: > Hello! > > This is my first post to the internals list so please forgive me if I have > not followed the rules precisely! > > I've had an idea to improve how developers use exceptions within PHP. I'd > like to add an RFC but as per t

[PHP-DEV] RFC - making the Exception class abstract

Hello! This is my first post to the internals list so please forgive me if I have not followed the rules precisely! I've had an idea to improve how developers use exceptions within PHP. I'd like to add an RFC but as per the instructions on the site , I am sending t