How is the screen ID determined for each admin page?

More specifically, I suppose... Post types.

see WP_Screen->get()

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try {
    thing_that_fails_with_exception();
}
catch ( \Exception $e ) {
    fix_thing_that_fails();
}

Wonder if that somehow is a valid scenario to handle an exception :)

why not?

Well, in words you are practically saying "catch the exception, then go off drink a beer (for e.g.)"

It just feels odd to say "catch" and then go and do something completely different.

example from Meadow: try { load twig template } catch ( there is no twig template ) { load php template }

note that you can be catching specific kind of exception and not just any exception

I know that. In the case where I started thinking about it, it's a PDOException from Doctrine (no Database present).

What got me thinking is that (in this Silex App), I have a method that checks if there is a connection to the Database. And in a second step, it's checking the available database tables. If one doesn't exist, I need to create it. So I thought about using the try/catch as switch. And that didn't sound valid to me.

it is if/else :) just with bubbling :)

note there is also finally now

Never seen finally before.

it's recent, PHP 5.5+

nice