On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:17:29 -0400, bearophile <[email protected]>
wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer:
Oh, readln includes the newline by default, so to!float is choking on
that.
Similar things happen often. But Andrei says this is good, because it's
more orthogonal. As Sting, I don't subscribe to this point of view.
Orthogonality isn't more important than practicality.
I agree with Andrei, there is no outlet for errors in the to!T function,
exception is the logical choice.
But I also agree with you that if you don't care, it should be possible to
ignore the errors without the cumbersome try-catch mechanism. Something
like:
to!(float, throw.No)(a)
or
toNoThrow!float(a)
-Steve
