That is a stellar response Dan, Thanks for being so clear. I had a feeling
that this might be the case so we'll have to work around it.
Just for clarity and posterity I provided the simplest test case in the
original email not the actual problem. In Drupal this isn't just one place
though becase,
Hi James,
On 31 March 2015 at 21:51, James Gilliland wrote:
> By design, \EngineException does not extend \Exception so code doesn't
> accidentally catch this special type of exception. ...
>
> I don't know if this is all acceptable and/or by design but it is awkward
> so I wanted to bring it to
So testing out PHP 7 I triggered an \EngineException() in Drupal 8. For
various reasons that don't really matter here Drupal uses
set_exception_handler() to provide its own exception handler. What is
important is that the methods used by that handler type hint \Exception for
their arguments. The im
Hi All,
BC is a good thing when you want to keep maintenance down and developers happy
but sometimes stalls progression. When there are bugs in the code that have been
there for a while, chances are that they will stay there forever for BC
reasons. The latest example is the postgreSQL driver, but
