On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Erik Bernhardson <ebernhardson@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