reddit discussion on replacing Python in 0install

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Tue Jun 11 11:38:51 PDT 2013


On 6/11/13 1:01 PM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 16:50:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 6/11/13 11:57 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> This code DOES fail:
>>>
>>> import std.stdio;
>>>
>>> int main()
>>> {
>>> writeln("hello");
>>> std.stdio.stdout.flush();
>>> return 0;
>>> }
>>
>> Ah, I suspected so. (At a point in D's history writeln() did do a
>> flush; people wanted to eliminate it for efficiency reasons.)
>>
>> We could introduce a flush() with throw in std.stdiobase.
>
> As in a module destructor? Isn't it better to let the error pass
> silently rather than throwing an exception that can't be caught?

It will not be caught but will cause the entire program to print a 
diagnostic and exit with a nonzero error code, which is useful.

Andrei


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