DIP65: Fixing Exception Handling Syntax

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On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 07:50:47 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>
>> I suggest recognizing in the parser:
>>
>>   ( Identifier )
>>
>> as a special case, in addition to using 
>> Parser::isDeclaration(). Gradually we can turn that special 
>> case into a warning, then deprecation.
>
> It's better to do the opposite, accept the common safe syntax 
> "catch(Exception)" (it's common because often you don't need to 
> give it a name, it's like function arguments without a variable 
> name), and refuse the "catch all" that is dangerous, that is a 
> bad practice even in Python.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Agreed.