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ID: 32100 Comment by: attila dot m dot magyar at gmail dot com Reported by: ceefour at gauldong dot net Summary: Request 'finally' support for exceptions Status: Closed Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Feature/Change Request Operating System: * PHP Version: 5.* Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I agree with the previous comments, a 'finally' keyword would be nice and useful when it fits to the conventions and standards applied in a project. If it's not hairy to implement and wouldn't introduce instability in the core, I'd reassure PHP developers to add this feature in a future release. Best regards, Athos Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-02-17 17:09:54] tyra3l at gmail dot com sorry, I screwed up part of my comment when editing: "and he didn't the first which closed the" and he didn't explained in his comment why is it rejected, aside the fact that we (who?) dont't need it Tyrael ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-02-17 16:54:06] tyra3l at gmail dot com +1 for adding the feature. I'm a little bit disappointed that there are no comment from the php core contributors on this issue except helly, and he didn't the first which closed the, I could accept the fact, that this cannot be done by technical reasons, but AFAIK it was rejected, because the core devs at that time didn't used or understood the finally, so they said, that nobody needs that. http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=96773381231437&w=2 times has changed, try doesn't leaks memory nowdays (or does it?), people got smarter, machines faster, maybe we could reconsider this feature, and reject it based on the current situation, not from a vague discussion from 10 years ago. Tyrael ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-02-17 14:14:33] hardyanto dot donny at gmail dot com "finally" is very useful for using ADODB: $db->StartTransaction(); try{ .... ... any exception can occur here... .... } finally { $db->CompleteTrans(); } Even there is exception occur in try block, the CompleteTrans() always be called. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-12-10 23:22:17] btsai at vrwarp dot com Wouldn't the argument against finally from Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ (http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html#finally) hold true? Basically, most good uses of finally are used for deallocating resources. Another way would simply be to design an object that represents the resource that automatically deallocates itself via the destructor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-12-10 16:08:56] marcus at lastcraft dot com Hi... The lack of finally causes us some crufty hard to debug code. The comment about swallowing the source of the exception is not an academic one - I've had grief over this. As for exceptions being used for "control flow" - they are control flow, that's the whole point. There is an antiquated argument from the C++ era about this, mostly driven by outdated performance data. Exceptions are not the same as errors, being more akin to a continuation when the usual return path does not make sense. Please, plase add finally to PHP as Java did to C++. yours, Marcus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32100 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32100&edit=1
