interesting, but this doesn't have anything in particular to do with what I was talking about.
to the best of my understanding, an exception transfers control back to the nearest calling code that has declared it is ready/willing/able to resume control in the event that, somewhere up the call-stack, a condition occurs that causes an exception. it's a wonderful mechanism with more uses than simply reporting errors - the aspect of transferring control is what I find really interesting about exceptions. with regards to transferring control, why does it strike you as so unnatural to also provide a mechanism for returning control? to me, it seems like a perfectly natural extension of that mechanism - and of course, not as something that just happens, but as a feature you can opt into. since breaking program flow is already supported by exceptions, and since that is the first half of the mechanism I have in mind, I thought it would be natural to have an extended type of exception (I called it an "interrupt") where it is also possible to resume program flow after the throw-statement. the way I defined it, as with exceptions, this requires a formal declaration to do so, both on the part of the throwing code, and on the part of the code that catches and assumes control after the throw. exceptions aren't guaranteed to be handled, and similarly, there's no guarantee that control will be returned to the throwing code after an interrupt. for all intents and purposes, it's still an exception, and can be handled as an exception too - the difference is, by throwing an interrupt, you've agreed to possibly resuming execution after the interrupt is handled, if the interrupt is caught and the catching code decides to return control. it's not a one-way transfer of control like a goto, where you have to test for conditions and decide where to transfer control on a case-by-case basis. in my mind, the term "spaghetti" doesn't describe the program itself, but the more or less unpredictable execution path, which can only be understood by trying to "execute" the program in your mind. exceptions (and what I call an interrupt) does not allow you to sporadically transfer control just anywhere, but rather follows the well-understood mechanics of an exception, with a hierarchical execution path - just with the added benefit of returning control from the exception-handler after catching and handling it. taking this one step further (with state-serialization and continuation) was just an afterthought, something that occurred to me while I was typing - that may be taking it too far, and really wasn't something I've been thinking about deeply... On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:28 AM, reeze <reeze....@gmail.com> wrote: > > If just for exception recovery how about implement ruby's retry ? > > http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/ruby_loops.htm Ruby retry statement > section. > > > 在 2012年4月2日星期一，下午8:44，Rasmus Schultz 写道： > > I was just reading about the new async/await keywords in C# 5.0, and while > this has no particular relevance to PHP as such, it got me thinking about > this idea... > > What if you could resume execution after an exception was thrown? > > Fictive example: > > function test() > { > echo "Begin Test!\n"; > > throw new Interrupt(); > > echo "Execution resumed!"; > } > > try > { > test(); > } > catch (Interrupt $e) > { > echo "Execution interrupted.\n"; > resume; > } > > The output of this would be: > > Begin Test! > Execution interrupted. > Execution resumed! > > In other words, Interrupt is a new type of Exception, from which you can > recover, using the new resume keyword. > > Taking this one step further, imagine it were also possible to serialize() > an Interrupt - and resume it at a later time. This would open up entirely > new possibilities for (AJAX) web-application frameworks, which would be > able to suspend execution, serialize the script state, return a response, > wait for further interaction from the user, and then resume execution. > > I'm sure there are lots of problems with this idea, and perhaps it's not a > good fit for PHP at all, but I figured it couldn't harm to put the idea > out > there anyway :-) > > Any thoughts? > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
