On 15/02/2026 4:57 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
On Saturday, 14 February 2026 at 15:54:23 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew
Cattermole wrote:
They are massive pain for exceptions.
Why are they a massive pain? Please explain.
You have to manually write the constructors for every exception you
want to declare yourself.
Normally with IDE's you'd have assistance and it would be done
automatically, but that isn't normal for D.
There are multiple parameters. Not a joy.
How many exception constructors do you write?
Zero, because I absolutely hate doing it.
Same reason why I avoid class hierarchies like the plague.
There are some real irritants with it that don't need to exist.
Minor annoyance, maybe,
but massive pain? Really?
To me yes.
From Java, the experience was a total 180.
I went from yeah ok I need this exception, go declare it.
To let's just throw an Exception forget about doing this properly.
It breeds slop, which really grates on me.
Usually I can get away with ignoring these features, but with PhobosV3 I
am unable to. I've already had to add new exception classes to druntime
specifically for it as part of null check.
I want classes improved, there is plenty of room for it.
