Exception chaining and collectException
Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Aug 18 15:55:37 PDT 2017
On 8/18/2017 2:09 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
> I invested quite a lot personally in implementing chained exceptions. But I
> agree with you.
> I was actually quite proud that I worked out the nasty corner cases during the
> initial implementation. As far as I can tell, problems with chained exceptions
> are not because of bugs and implementation issues, but because of problems with
> the concept itself.
>
> I think it's just a bit too clever.
Thanks for the explanation. When I decided to support Dwarf exceptions, I spent
a lot of time trying to match that behavior.
We've all invested lots of time in things that didn't pay off. We mustn't get
trapped by the sunk cost fallacy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
and I'm glad you're ok with that!
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