On 02/03/2016 03:47 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 11:41:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
AFAIK, there is no way to detect whether an exception is in flight or
not aside from the cases where scope(failure) or catch would catch the
exception, and from what I recall of the last time that someone asked
this question, the consensus was that it couldn't be done - but maybe
I'm remembering incorrectly. I am pretty sure that this was asked
within the last few months though, so if you search D.Learn, you can
probably find that discussion.
:-/
I am looking for something like this:
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/error/uncaught_exception
It is useful for certain types of libraries where you want to cancel out
effects "undo commits" when exceptional situations arise.
std::uncaught_exception used to be considered useless:
http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/047.htm
Does that apply to D?
Ali
