On Thursday, 6 February 2014 at 22:15:11 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
Personally I don't think bad user input qualifies as an exceptional case because it's expected to happen and the program is expected to handle it (and let the user know) when it does. That's just a matter of taste though.
I agree. It kills the whole concept of "exceptions are rare so they don't need to be fast when thrown". But it is how quite lot of Phobos is currently designed and, in my opinion, is biggest design mistake of vibe.d too (it uses exceptions to propagate HTTP status codes)
