[Semi OT] Language for Game Development talk

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/26/2014 12:47 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I would, except that right now I'm working on a dmd PR. ;-)

No hurry.

> Do you have
> references to back up your claims (references deemed acceptable by WP)?

Yes, I quoted from Bjarne's 1986 book "The C++ Programming Language".

Bjarne writes in "Possible Directions for C++" he writes "Because of destructors 
the C solution is insufficient and C++ will eventually be forced to develop an 
exception handling mechanism."

    -- Proceedings and Additional Papers C++ Workshop Santa Fe, NM, 1987

That's the first reference I can find to adding EH to C++. It does not propose 
any syntax.

In 1988 and 1990 there are proposals for ways to add EH to C++.