[Joke] C++ and D namings

John Colvin john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com
Fri Jan 22 15:08:31 UTC 2021


On Friday, 22 January 2021 at 09:28:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/21/2021 3:12 AM, John Colvin wrote:
>> It's worth saying that we do depend on being able to catch 
>> Errors at Symmetry*, our situation is a little unusual though.
>> 
>> * "we are happy when a thrown Error is caught in some limited 
>> circumstances" not "our program is incorrect if any particular 
>> thrown Error is not caught"
>
> I recommend considering replacing it with Exception.

The purpose is to catch unexpected Errors from any source, 
including accidental bounds violations, code deep in 3rd party 
dependencies etc. It doesn't matter if we miss some, but it's 
nice to catch them when we can.


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