try/catch idiom in std.datetime

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, November 18, 2013 22:04:59 Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> In that case, would we want it to be legal to throw AssertError instead
> of using the halt instructions? Because that's what the docs says.

For when you're not in release mode. You want the more informative AssertError 
in that case. HLT is just for when assertions get compiled out.

- Jonathan M Davis