Change the name of ArrayBoundsException in druntime
Andrei Alexandrescu
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Thu Oct 23 14:47:14 PDT 2008
Sergey Gromov 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.
No, translation would have to be provided via a string table. And guess
who provides the key for that table.
Andrei
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