"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message news:jhos0l$102t$1...@digitalmars.com... > There's a discussion that started in a pull request: > > https://github.com/alexrp/phobos/commit/4b87dcf39efeb4ddafe8fe99a0ef9a529c0dcaca >
What the hell...? It says "5 notes on commit", but only 2 are shown (both by alexrp). (And yes, that's with a modern browser with JS on.) > From experience I humbly submit that catching by type is most of the time > useless. > Another one for the file of "Crazy shit Andrei says" ;) >From experience, I (and clearly many others here) find a sparse, flat exception hierarchy to be problematic and limiting. But even with a rich detailed exception hierarchy, those (ie, Andrei) who want to limit themselves to catching course-grained exceptions can do so, thanks to the nature of subtyping. So why are we even discussing this?
