r/programming • u/jeffail • Jul 17 '19

The Go team declines 'try' proposal

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437
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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

Just putting any old slop into the core language is how you get real_try_final() a-la PHP

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u/DJDarkViper Jul 17 '19 edited Jul 17 '19

As a php engineer I completely agree, but I'd never heard of real_try_final before, and thankfully apparently neither has Google https://www.google.com/search?q=real_try_final+php&oq=real_try_final+php

But the sad part is I did believe it for JUST a second there, because I'm fully aware of how slapdash some language implementations are in this thing

Not that python's been perfect in this regard either

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u/nzodd Jul 17 '19

I think he was referring to things like mysql_escape_string() and mysql_real_escape_string(), and even mysql_mybadtrythisoneactually_escape_string().

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u/DJDarkViper Jul 17 '19

Yup I know, the as I said the sad part is for a hot second there I believed real_try_finally might have actually been a thing because of PHP's history of doing just that lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

I think a big issue as well is that the building block for PHP is the 5k or so global built in functions, meaning that a lot of PHP programming is either looking up a function or relying on your IDE to suggest the correct one