Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] Abstract Syntax Tree

>
> If we're talking the plunge of putting exceptions into the core engine,
> wouldn't it make sense to convert most of the fatal errors (especially
> the "catchable" ones) to exceptions too? Most of them (except for out of
> memory, timeouts and such) don't really require the engine to shut down,
> as it seems... So if we're already saying people will have to deal with
> exceptions in PHP engine anyway, maybe we could make it so that we could
> have unified handling of them?


This is something that Nikita had originally proposed in an RFC (
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/engine_exceptions) but postponed until after 5.6.

I have a feeling we'll be hearing about its resurrection soon enough.

- Trevor