DIP33: A standard exception hierarchy

[deadalnix]

On Friday, 5 April 2013 at 18:38:46 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Part of the point is that if you had an Error, there _is_ no 
> graceful
> shutdown. It's in an invalid state. Doing _anything_ at that 
> point is risky.
> Depending on why the Error occurred, you could just as easily 
> completely
> corrupt playlist files as properly update them. If you have an 
> Error, you
> basically just crashed. Don't expect that to be any cleaner 
> than if someone
> just pulled the plug on your computer.
>

That is once again nonsense. It MAY not be possible to recover, 
it doesn't mean that not even make it possible to try is the 
right thing to do.