The Right Approach to Exceptions

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
news:jhos0l$102t$1 at digitalmars.com...
> There's a discussion that started in a pull request:
>
> https://github.com/alexrp/phobos/commit/4b87dcf39efeb4ddafe8fe99a0ef9a529c0dcaca
>

What the hell...? It says "5 notes on commit", but only 2 are shown (both by 
alexrp). (And yes, that's with a modern browser with JS on.)

> From experience I humbly submit that catching by type is most of the time 
> useless.
>

Another one for the file of "Crazy shit Andrei says" ;)

>From experience, I (and clearly many others here) find a sparse, flat 
exception hierarchy to be problematic and limiting. But even with a rich 
detailed exception hierarchy, those (ie, Andrei) who want to limit 
themselves to catching course-grained exceptions can do so, thanks to the 
nature of subtyping. So why are we even discussing this?