Change the name of ArrayBoundsException in druntime
Bill Baxter
wbaxter at gmail.com
Thu Oct 23 16:05:45 PDT 2008
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Sergey Gromov <snake.scaly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:55:27 +0900,
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Sergey Gromov <snake.scaly at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Just use poedit or whatever to provide localizations of the messages.
>> I don't see how this has bearing on the discussion at all.
>
> Where do I get all the messages library may throw?
Ah, I see your point now. I thought this was still about making
distinct types for every exception.
I missed the comment from Andrei.
--bb
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