reddit discussion on replacing Python in 0install

[QAston]

On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 17:01:43 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad 
wrote:
>> Ah, I suspected so. (At a point in D's history writeln() did 
>> do a flush; people wanted to eliminate it for efficiency 
>> reasons.)
>>
>> We could introduce a flush() with throw in std.stdiobase.
>
> As in a module destructor?  Isn't it better to let the error 
> pass silently rather than throwing an exception that can't be 
> caught?

Passing silently on errors would contradict with several talks 
Andrei and Walter have given about how D's error handling is much 
better than C/C++ one (there are some HelloWorld program 
comparisions from those languages available on YT), I think they 
want that claim to remain valid. To me it is important to have 
error reported whenever something fails and have it as fast as 
possible - image a db backup system which fails silently.