try/catch idiom in std.datetime

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/20/13 3:45 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 20:47:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> There are a bunch of styles that are consistent yet used by nobody,
>> because they are objectively worse. So consistency is not the sole
>> requirement. Then you hadn't mentioned "that is liked by at least one
>> programmer" which moves the goalposts. Then one programmer can be one
>> highly unusual human being, so there is strength in numbers.
>
> You see, the whole definition of term "objective comparison" implies
> comparison by  traits other than actual usage.

No, because the quantity being measured is "worse".

Andrei