'idiomatic' porting of c and or c++ code that does NULL checking

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 03:19:09 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> I use Exception for recoverable errors and Error for those that 
> aren't.

Sorry, you're right, that description of Exception/Error is 
correct. But I don't think that SDL initialization is a 
non-recoverable error. The program might want to retry SDL 
initialization with different parameters, and if that code would 
make it into a library, said library might try using a different 
graphics library or use some other form of user interaction.