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[2005-04-21 13:06 UTC] info at adaniels dot nl

Description:
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Pear currently uses a system where any given result may be an PEAR error and should be check before continueing. I believe this is quite outdated, since PHP 5 supports exceptions.

Perhaps the use of exceptions can be enabled using a setting in php.ini to maintain backward compability.

Reproduce code:
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So instead of:
$result = a($b);
if ($PEAR::isError($result)) {
....
} else {
$result = g($h);
if ($PEAR::isError($result)) {
....
} else {
....
}
}

Expected result:
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Much nicer would be:
try {
a($b);
g($h);
} catch (PearException $e) {
....
}

[2005-04-21 13:33 UTC] smith at backendmedia dot com

Furthermore PEAR_Error is by no means outdated. Its just an alternate more flexible, less magic error handling mechanism. You have been brainwashed.