try/catch idiom in std.datetime

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-11-18 10:13, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> The aren't if the condition is statically known to be false, as is the case
> when you use a try-catch block to catch Exception and then assert within the
> catch block in order to make the function be able to be nothrow.

Then it supposed to turn it into a HLT instruction, at least on x86. I 
don't know how much that affects the code size.

> It also won't run unless you compile with -debug, which I expect very, very
> few people do.

True.

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/Jacob Carlborg