D Language Foundation April 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 15/05/2023 12:47 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> Átila said he'd been thinking about copying Herb Sutter's idea for 
> zero-overhead C++ exceptions. He said the basic idea is that you get rid 
> of exceptions while keeping the syntax. (Here's a link to the PDF 
> <https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p0709r4.pdf>).

Design work is already done.

https://github.com/rikkimax/DIPs/blob/value_type_exceptions/DIPs/DIP1xxx-RC.md

I kinda think sumtypes should go first so we can do catch all.