PHP 7 try - catch: unable to catch “Catchable fatal error”

Question

I am playing with try - catch block:

Answer 1

As user2782001 mentioned this is not a bug in the eyes of PHP dev's. They even noted that these type of errors should be referenced as 'recoverable':

we should get rid of any references to "catchable" fatal errors (if they still exist) in favor of "recoverable" fatal errors. Using "catchable" here is confusing as they cannot be caught using catch blocks.

On the ErrorException manual page there is a neat workaround converting those "catchable/recoverable" errors to ErrorException.

now you will be able to catch those errors with:

getMessage();
}
?>

or

try {
    // Error code
} catch (Throwable $t) { // this will catch both Errors and Exceptions
    echo $t->getMessage();
}
?>