Posted by adam.timberlake on 12/03/07 03:56

I've just finished reading the article below which goes into some
depth about exceptions. The article was rather lucid and so I
understand how to implement it all, the thing I'm having trouble with
though is why would I need to them? For example, I could suppress my
functions using the @ sign and then use an if statement to check if
they returned false or not. Similarly, I can also return various
integers, like -4 and -5 for errors, and check those.

Article: http://www.talkphp.com/showthread.php?t=1478

As you can see, the article gives some reasons why, but I don't think
it's quite convinced me that exceptions are the way to go. I thought
maybe they'd introduce a lot more into the error handling side of
things, but I think I am mistaken. Unless I am overlooking something?

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