On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Erik Bernhardson <ebernhard...@wikimedia.org
> wrote:

> I started replying, but there are just way too many different opinions to
> reply to you all. IF the accepted method of handling errors in mediawiki is
> to throw an exception and cancel page render we will simply do that
> instead.
>

I think every response so far can be distilled into this:

"We already have three major error-reporting patterns: return null/false,
throw exceptions, and return a Status object. Can you justify the idea of
adding a fourth with strong benefits compared to the existing three?"

-- brion
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