On 05/31/2017 02:55 PM, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 17:13:08 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)
wrote:
On 05/31/2017 09:04 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
What are your thoughts?
+1 million. I *hate* D's notion of Error. Well, no...more correctly, I
absolutely hate that it throws cleanup/unwinding straight out the
window for many situations that can obviously be handled safely
without the paranoid "ZOMG Sky Is Falling!!!!" overreaction that is
baked into the design of Error. And that causes problems like the one
you describe.
To be fair, anything that can be handled in a sane&safe way should
inherit from Exception, not from Error, so throwing away cleanup for
Error makes sense, since an Error means the program is in an undefined
state and should terminate asap.
Then out-of-bounds and assert failures should be Exception not Error.
Frankly, even out-of-memory, arguably. And then there's null
dereference... In other words, basically everything.
