[PHP-NOTES] note 130415 added to backedenum.tryfrom

[email protected] ("[email protected]") Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:41:38 +0000 (UTC)
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I use tryFrom when I don't want an exception to be thrown, when I don't expect the arg passed will always be valid.

This will return null:

MyEnum::tryFrom($variableThatCanBeNull ?? '')

While this will throw an exception:

MyEnum::from($variableThatCanBeNull ?? '')
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