reddit discussion on replacing Python in 0install
Lars T. Kyllingstad
public at kyllingen.net
Tue Jun 11 12:36:43 PDT 2013
On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 18:38:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> On 6/11/13 1:01 PM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
>> 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.
Then we should also provide a hook so the user has the option of
handling it. For example, core.exception could provide
void setStaticDestructorExceptionHandler(
void function(string module, Throwable t) handler);
or similar.
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