Exception slipping through the catch block?

[helxi]

On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 15:41:11 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 15:08:40 UTC, helxi wrote:
>> Shouldn't the catch block in the function catch the exception?
>
> You caught Exception, but it throws Error. They have separate 
> inheritance trees.
>
>
> The common ancestor is actually Throwable, though note that 
> there is no guarantee that Errors actually unwind the stack; 
> with certain compile flags they might just abort the program.

Thanks.

Although it's pretty frustrating, isn't it? Now not only I have 
to think about catching exceptions but also about Errors, and 
have no guarantee that I have everything under control.