Php 4.3.0 Rc ?

Tekron-X

Well do any of you think that when the come out with the final version that it will be worth switching from 4.2.3 to 4.3.0 ?

Personally I think it might have a good aspect to it but also it might have more problems what do you guys think ?

ednark

there will have to be massive rewrites to take advantage of it....

like changing all you code to use try catch and throw error objects... phew!!! what a change

Tekron-X

Man are they turning php in to a full programming language like Java 2. With the try catch blocks and stuff. Throwing errors. The will make it so hard for people to learn the language it won't be funny becase then you need to know all of the possible exceptions that can be throwen at you. It is alot simpiler if they just leave it wiht the way we handel errors now or just put in the On Error GoTo like they use in vb. That way it is simple for the programmer to trap errors.

largo

4... what?... gone to read changelog

barnesdr

Originally posted by Tekron-X
It is alot simpiler if they just leave it wiht the way we handel errors now or just put in the On Error GoTo like they use in vb. That way it is simple for the programmer to trap errors.

There's some good info on the new exception handling method here:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?D21512682

(the Zend Engine 2 Feature Overview)

I don't think this'll make exception handling any harder. In Java you need to declare or handle any exceptions that code you call might raise. It looks to me like this follows the .NET method of letting you not bother if you're lazy, and the exception'll just get passed up the call stack as usual.

makeashorterlink.com and the Google PDF viewer both deserve prizes, by the way.

ednark

after reading more carefully that link above..

hmmm it looks like php is becoming python

i think part of the pull of php was as an entry level programming interface for webdevelopers.... it was very simple very stright forward.... no try catch to worry about...

Tekron-X

Exactlly. I hate the try catch I rather the On Error GoTo of VB 🙂

But they must do what they must do. And all I know is if I need to relearn php to do that Try catch I am staying with Version 4.2.3 I just hope it takes a while for the web host I am planing to use to convert 🙂