What features do you want to see in PHP6

[michel]

Hmm. Well, it is not at all clear to me why you would want to do the former. Maybe your intention is to simply log some condition's outcome?

Throw an Exception instance, just have internals take care of instantiation.

Besides, I don't see how much more convenient it really is

Same reason shorthand notation exists in for example JavaScript, Python and CSS: brevity. I guess it's a matter of taste.

[Chris Corbyn]

There's a reason for this though. Yes, javascript lets you throw any type of object as an exception, but that's mainly because there aren't any classes or interfaces, so there'd be no other way to do it anyway. The downside of this is that, unlike php, you can only have a single catch statement; you can't have multiple catch statements for different types of errors, which means you have to add if statements and instanceof operators, which is messy.

Sorry, just had to point something out here, albeit, something IE kindly haven't implemented:

Multiple catch Blocks
A single try statement can contain multiple conditional catch blocks, each of which handles a specific type of exception. In this case, the appropriate conditional catch block is entered only when the exception specified for that block is thrown. You can also include an optional catch-all catch block for all unspecified exceptions as the final catch block in the statement.

For example, the following function invokes three other functions (declared elsewhere), which validate its arguments. If a validation function determines that the component that it is checking is invalid, it returns 0, causing the caller to throw a particular exception.

function getCustInfo(name, id, email)
{
   var n, i, e;

   if (!validate_name(name))
       throw "InvalidNameException"
   else
       n = name;
       if (!validate_id(id))
          throw "InvalidIdException"
       else
          i = id;
       if (!validate_email(email))
          throw "InvalidEmailException"
       else
          e = email;
       cust = (n + " " + i + " " + e);
       return (cust);
}

The conditional catch blocks route control to the appropriate exception handler.

try {
// function could throw three exceptions
   getCustInfo("Lee", 1234, "lee@netscape.com")
}

catch (e if e == "InvalidNameException") {
// call handler for invalid names
   bad_name_handler(e)
}

catch (e if e == "InvalidIdException") {
// call handler for invalid ids
   bad_id_handler(e)
}

catch (e if e == "InvalidEmailException") {
// call handler for invalid email addresses
   bad_email_handler(e)
}

catch (e){
// don't know what to do, but log it
   logError(e)
}

[datune]

Unicode support!

Everything else can wait for PHP7 imho.

[jozef]

I am starting using PHP 5.3 in real project. I have found some missing features in PHP 5.3
- full Unicode support in core
- namespace visibility
bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45681

[kyberfabrikken]

You do realise that this thread is 3 years old, right?