DIP 1002 (TryElseExpression) added to the queue

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 28 September 2016 at 23:44:19 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/28/16 7:40 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> // With scope
>> void assertNot(string s)
>> {
>>     try { scope(success) assert(0, s); 
>> decode(s,DecodeMode.STRICT); }
>>     catch (DecodeException e) {}
>> }
>
> Sorry, this is not semantically equivalent. Replace with:
>
> // With scope
> void assertNot(string s)
> {
>     try { decode(s,DecodeMode.STRICT); }
>     catch (DecodeException e) { return; }
>     assert(0, s);
> }
>
>
> Andrei

Aren't those the same, as assert won't ever throw a 
DecodeException?

Simplest implementation:

try {
     decode(s,DecodeMode.STRICT);
     assert(0, s);
} catch (DecodeException e) {}