Arnaud and I would like to present another RFC for consideration: Context Managers.
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/context-managers You'll probably note that is very similar to the recent proposal from Tim and Seifeddine. Both proposals grew out of casual discussion several months ago; I don't believe either team was aware that the other was also actively working on such a proposal, so we now have two. C'est la vie. :-) Naturally, Arnaud and I feel that our approach is the better one. In particular, as Arnaud noted in an earlier reply, __destruct() is unreliable if timing matters. It also does not allow differentiating between a success or failure exit condition, which for many use cases is absolutely mandatory (as shown in the examples in the context manager RFC). The Context Manager proposal is a near direct port of Python's approach, which is generally very well thought-out. However, there are a few open questions as listed in the RFC that we are seeking feedback on. Discuss. :-) -- Larry Garfield [email protected]
