RFC: reference counted Throwable

[Daniel N via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 20 September 2014 at 03:25:39 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 9/19/2014 8:13 PM, Daniel N wrote:
>> What does the GC bring to exceptions that makes it 
>> sufficiently invaluable to
>> warrant two parallel implementations? It can't be about 
>> performance, since
>> _thrown_ exceptions are already in the slow path... Backwards 
>> compatibility?
>
> Backwards compatibility.

Thanks!

As much as I applaud our efforts for Backwards compatibility, it 
only affects code which already has been written, whereas a 
switch would affect "all" code that will be written, imho the 
burden both on library and app devs would be less if we simply 
redefined Throwable.