On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Erik Bernhardson <ebernhardson(a)wikimedia.org
wrote:
I started replying, but there are just way too many
different opinions to
reply to you all. IF the accepted method of handling errors in mediawiki is
to throw an exception and cancel page render we will simply do that
instead.
I think every response so far can be distilled into this:
"We already have three major error-reporting patterns: return null/false,
throw exceptions, and return a Status object. Can you justify the idea of
adding a fourth with strong benefits compared to the existing three?"
-- brion