Change the name of ArrayBoundsException in druntime

Sergey Gromov snake.scaly at gmail.com
Thu Oct 23 14:41:45 PDT 2008


Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:44:46 -0500,
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Sorry, I meant to catch Exception. My point was, if I want to print an 
> informative message, the exception should be able to provide it without 
> having to encode it in its type.

It's all nice and simple until you want to localize.  Then all your 
'informative compiler-provided messages' appear as garbage to a non-
English-speaking user.  They need to be translated somehow.  And the 
translation is likely to be based upon the context, not upon an arbitrary 
string exception contains.



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