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

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2018-07-08 22:55, John Carter wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 July 2018 at 01:18:21 UTC, wjoe wrote:
>> But that's not how D works. It throws an Error which can be caught.
>>
>> If people are allowed to do something they assume it's legitimate.
>>
>> It should be a compile time error to catch an Error, but it doesn't 
>> even emit a warning and it seems to work well which is probably proof 
>> enough for people to assume it's good.
> 
> I got myself so tangled up in knots with the equivalent in Ruby.... You 
> can "rescue" the base Exception class... which initially I did 
> everywhere to try give better error messages...
> 
> Which more often than not would result in everything going weird and 
> insane instead of useful.
> 
> Eventually I replaced _every_ "rescue Exception" with "rescue 
> StandardError" and life improved majorly.

There's even a SyntaxError exception class (inheriting from Exception), 
which you do not want to catch.

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/Jacob Carlborg