My Kingdom For ...

[Bill Baxter]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Janice Caron" <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.47.1203635455.2351.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> 
>> And while we're on the subject of random falling over, am I the only
>> one who gets infuriated by the occasional "Win32 Exception" halting a
>> program with no further explanation? They happen when the flow of
>> execution hits the bottom of a function without returning, when it's
>> supposed to return something. I'm surprised we can't catch those at
>> compile time, but even a nice D Exception throw at runtime (...again,
>> in a debug build only...) would be useful.
> 
> Except that it _does_ throw an exception to that effect in a debug build. 
> God, have you even _used_ D? 

Have you seen std.xml?

[I know you were being rhetorical -- but it's a good chance to mention 
this first public contribution (AFAIK) from Janice.]

--bb