try/catch idiom in std.datetime

[Daniel Murphy]

"Dicebot" <public at dicebot.lv> wrote in message 
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> On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 14:15:17 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> One day you should all stop doing what you are doing and focus on 
>> bootstrapping the compiler.
>
> You'll be surprised - https://github.com/yebblies/magicport2 ;)
> ( https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1980 )
>
> It won't fix the lexer/parser issue on its own as current DMD code that 
> does it does not seem to be easily usable as a library. Though it will 
> allow to switch compiler to imaginary std.d.lexer/std.d.parser to 
> guarantee consistency.

Compiler-as-a-library comes next.