try/catch idiom in std.datetime

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, November 18, 2013 20:56:47 Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
> news:l6ccae$2cmt$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 
> > 1. Fix scope(failure) and then use it.
> 
> scope(failure) picks up Errors as well as Exceptions

Ouch. That's true, which more or less kills that idea - though according to 
Walter, it's not supposed to be guaranteed to do so, and he'd probably prefer 
that it never did. But that's a whole debate in and of itself, and we've had 
it before.

- Jonathan M Davis