[TYPO3-dev] RFC: CGL change regarding return statements

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

François Suter wrote:
> One thing we should absolutely avoid IMO is to have mixed return types.
> This still happens in a lot of places in the Core: some method is
> expected to return a string or an array, but returns FALSE when it
> fails. This is bad style. If we are bent on cleaning up the Core, we
> should rather throw exceptions when a problem arises and return
> type-fitting values otherwise.
>
> Throwing exceptions can probably some or all of the early returns.

Good idea! +1.

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Dmitry Dulepov
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