try/catch idiom in std.datetime

[deadalnix]

On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 23:57:40 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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

Ho please, we aren't in a schoolyard.