try/catch idiom in std.datetime

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On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 20:47:10 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
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> There are a bunch of styles that are consistent yet used by 
> nobody, because they are objectively worse. So consistency is 
> not the sole requirement.
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This is true, one can always be consistently illegible :D

http://www.ioccc.org/1986/bright.c

For me personally I always find switching to FORTRAN very 
jarring. It is interesting because FORTRAN itself is very 
readable, but the style often used and ALLCAPS everywhere make it 
hard to read at first.

However, on the whole I've found consistency often leads to 
legibility.

Cheers.