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[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Since the default handling for exceptions 
>> is to print a pretty message, like "cannot open file xxxxx", for many 
>> utility programs that is all you need. You don't have to write any 
>> error handling code, and yet your program handles errors correctly and 
>> gracefully reports them to the user.
> 
> I wouldn't go that far. Unfortunately, writing even exception-neutral 
> code still changes the way one writes code even if you don't need to 
> handle errors explicitly (fortunately scope statements help with that).

I agree that scope statements are only necessary if you need to recover 
from errors. I don't know what you mean by how it changes the way one 
writes code.