Proposal for custom time string formatting in std.datetime

[Walter Bright]

On 12/22/2011 9:36 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> The authors of Java apparently thought the same. It is _experience_ with the
> actual feature that turned out to be bad. Last time I used Eclipse it underlined
> with red the lines with .*.

Checked exceptions is another feature that looks great on paper; it's only after 
years of use one discovers what a perniciously bad feature it is.

C++11 dropped it, too.