On Saturday, 7 November 2015 at 21:24:02 UTC, Fyodor Ustinov
wrote:
Colleagues, IMHO:
If "assert" catch "fundamental programmers errors" - it should
hang programm immediately with and without "-release".
If "assert" catch not "too fundamental" errors - assert(0)
should emit "Error" in both cases.
Third option - assert(0) - it's a "special case" and halt
program in both cases.
But there should't be so that in one case the "fundamental
error" and the other "not fundamental".
It's my opinion.
WBR,
Fyodor.
I strongly disagree. Without `-release`, the job of "fundamental
programmers errors" is not to stop the program and prevent
farther corruption(which is pointless - how do you know executing
the `scope(exit)` and `scope(failure)` blocks will increase the
corruption? Maybe they'll reduce it?), because when you are
developing you shouldn't work with the only copies of important
data files. Without `-release`, the role of `assert`s(and
`Error`s in general) is the help the programmer fix these bugs.
When I have a "fundamental programmer error" in my code, I prefer
to get a stack trace from the exception mechanism than to find a
core dump(that was hopefully generated) and rely on GDB's
excellent support for D to analyze it.
Besides, there are some very specific cases where it's acceptable
to catch `Error`s - one of them is when you have a logging
mechanism that can log these errors in a way/place that's easier
for you to read - and then of course re-throws them. Halting the
program on errors prevents this logging mechanism from doing it's
thing.
