Hello Adam,

Wednesday, April 14, 2004, 12:58:36 AM, you wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Marcus Boerger wrote:

>> > If the developer catches it, they handle it. If they don't, PHP
>> > catches it and issues a fatal error.
>>
>> I am not a friend of PHP catching exceptions and converting them to
>> E_ERRORs. Just have an uncaught exception message as we have now.
>> And no way of generous catching E_ERRORs by back-door.

> This is what I meant. An uncaught exception message is fatal right
> now.

> PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'SQLiteException' with message
> 'SQLiteDatabase::__construct(): unable to open database: /sbin/foo'
> in Command line code:1
> Stack trace:
> #0 {main}
>   thrown in Command line code on line 1

> This is actually a pretty nasty side effect of throwing exceptions in
> ctors because these two lines have *very* different results if they
> fail:

> $db = new SQLiteDatabase();
> $db = sqlite_open();

sqlite_open returns a resource and new SQLiteDatabase returns an object.
The latter is a ctor and to prevent it throwing exceptions you'd need to
provide a factory method, make the ctor private (which prevents inhering)
and then look ofr all possible kinds of failures before calling the ctor.



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 Marcus                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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