PHP: 'or' statement on instruction fail: how to throw a new exception?

Question

Everyone here should know the \'or\' statemens, usually glued to an die() command:

$foo = bar() or die(\'Error: bar function return false.\');

Answer 1

A solution I found that can replace "or die()" everywhere is to wrap the throw with a anonymous function that gets called immediately by call_user_func:

call_user_func(function(){
    throw new Exception("ERROR");
});

You can see that it works by executing this on a dummy script:

false or call_user_func(function(){throw new Exception("ERROR");});