On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:39:33 +0300, Tony Marston <tonymars...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
I disagree. Exceptions were originally invented to solve the
semipredicate problem which only exists with procedural functions, not
object methods. Many OO purists would like exceptions to be thrown
everywhere, but this would present a huge BC break. If it were possible
get these functions to throw an exception ONLY when they are included in
a try ... catch block then this would not break BC at all.
Tony, first of all - this still breaks BC, because exception is being
thrown in a place where it used not to be...
When some function's result heavily depends on the context it makes said
function much harder to reason about. And creates mental overhead for
those who'll have to read the code with this function.
And again, if you need exceptions for fopen please consider using
SplFileObject.
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