Change the name of ArrayBoundsException in druntime

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Sergey Gromov 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?  How can I be sure 
> that the message won't change in the next release, silently discarding my 
> translation?
> 
> Informative library-provided messages are a myth.  The only informative 
> part is an exception type, or a standardized error code--which is even 
> better for localization.  The "writeln(e.toString())" approach only 
> suffices for quick utilities not meant for use by an end user.

I agree. For true localization, string tables are necessary.

Andrei