reddit discussion on replacing Python in 0install

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/11/13 3:36 PM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 18:38:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 6/11/13 1:01 PM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> It will not be caught but will cause the entire program to print a
>> diagnostic and exit with a nonzero error code, which is useful.
>
> Then we should also provide a hook so the user has the option of
> handling it. For example, core.exception could provide
>
> void setStaticDestructorExceptionHandler(
> void function(string module, Throwable t) handler);
>
> or similar.

That's nice but but seems overdesign. I'd say let's fix the bug for now.

Andrei