DIP65: Fixing Exception Handling Syntax

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jul 17 17:47:42 PDT 2014


On 7/17/14, 2:51 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>
>> We need to STOP breaking existing code.
>
> This is a small example case where I suggest to break hypothetical
> existing code:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2077#issuecomment-49360265
>
>
> The fear of breaking code should NOT freeze our brains in terror. For
> each sigh of broken code could exist one thousand sighs caused by broken
> designs that will keep causing troubles forever.

Doesn't seem like terror to me. Thing is there's got to be a win there 
for the breakage to be justified. -- Andrei



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