Sutter's ISO C++ Trip Report - The best compliment is when someone else steals your ideas....

[Walter Bright]

On 7/2/2018 7:53 PM, John Carter wrote:
>> Step 2 is to (gradually) migrate std:: standard library precondition 
>> violations in particular from exceptions (or error codes) to contracts. The 
>> programming world now broadly recognizes that programming bugs (e.g., 
>> out-of-bounds access, null dereference, and in general all 
>> pre/post/assert-condition violations) cause a corrupted state that cannot be 
>> recovered from programmatically, and so they should never be reported to the 
>> calling code as exceptions or error codes that code could somehow handle.
> 
> Ah, that's a really nice statement.

So, I have finally convinced the C++ world about that! Now if I can only 
convince the D world :-)

(I'm referring to the repeated and endless threads here where people argue that 
yes, they can recover from programming bugs!)