Hi!
In particular this means that...
... if a die() is execute somewhere in the try clause (or a called
function) the finally clause must still be run.
... if a parse error or other fatal error occurs in the try clause (or
called function) the finally clause must still be run.
... if the user interrupts the process the finally clause must still be run.
No I don't think so. finally clause is used to clean up resources
allocated/initialized by the code inside try clause. All the above
functions will terminate the script and thus all the resources that were
allocated will be freed. If you so something more persistent, then a)
use shutdown functions b) know that the script can be killed at any
moment anyway, so PHP can not guarantee you anything. I don't see how
finally ever implied it would be called on die().
Basically this requires that all of the actions that are currently
fatal need to be converted to exceptions. E.g. Python has special
SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt exceptions, as well as SyntaxError
and so on.
So basically this requires that PHP will be converted to Python. ;) I'd
almost write an RFC but then I remembered somebody already wrote Python! :)
PHP risks losing some of its uniqueness to fixing things, unfortunately. But losing bad features and moving forward is good, right?