Greenwashing

[Timon Gehr]

On 28.05.20 22:41, Meta wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 May 2020 at 00:31:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 5:57:00 PM MDT Meta via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 27 May 2020 at 18:50:50 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> > Based on some of Walter's comments, it also sounds like he > 
>>> intends to make nothrow the default in another DIP, which is > also a 
>>> terrible idea. I'm increasingly worried about the > future of D with 
>>> some of where these DIPs are going.
>>> >
>>> > - Jonathan M Davis
>>>
>>> What's wrong with nothrow by default? Probably 97% of code doesn't 
>>> need to throw exceptions.
>>
>> If anything, I would say the opposite.
>>
>> <snip>
> 
> I find that response surprising, given that you used to use Haskell (do 
> you still?), which gets along fine without exceptions.

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.14.0.0/docs/Control-Exception.html

Furthermore, imperative-style code in Haskell is based on monads, which 
are a generalization of exceptions.