newCTFE Status September 2019

[FeepingCreature]

On Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 11:57:35 UTC, rjframe wrote:
> I'd argue that it is bad practice to have a thrown Exception at 
> CT that doesn't result in a failed compilation; compile-time 
> exceptions should be treated by the programmer like failed 
> assertions

I strongly disagree with this.

CTFE is explicitly not supposed to be a separate universe with 
its own standards of behavior; it's supposed to just be 
"functions, executed at compiletime". Crucially, the *same* 
functions as at runtime, hence opening up the use of Phobos.

Phobos, which silently throws and catches exceptions internally.