try/catch idiom in std.datetime

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/20/13 4:03 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 23:57:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> No, because the quantity being measured is "worse".
>>
>> Andrei
>
> If it would have been an inherent well-defined trait of an object
> itself, it would have been objective comparison. As this quantity is
> defined purely (and no real measurable traits other than consistency
> were proposed) by observing subject, it can't be an objective
> measurement and this objective comparison.

In this context "objectively worse" means "all reasonable people would 
say it's worse".

Andrei