try/catch idiom in std.datetime

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On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 20:06:04 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> What I meant is there are consistent styles that are 
> objectively worse. Consistency is necessary but not sufficient.

And what I meant is this opinion of yours is wrong. Any 
consistent style that is liked by at least one programmer that 
uses it in practice is no worse than any other possible 
consistent style. There is nothing objective about it, pretty 
much as there are not that much common about human perception.