Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 19:50 +1000, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> O[…]
> This is going to sound really stupid... but do people actually use
> exceptions regularly?
> I've never used one. When I encounter code that does, I just find it
> really annoying to debug. I've never 'gotten' exceptions. I'm not sure
> why error codes are insufficient, other than the obvious fact that
> they hog the one sacred return value.
> D is just a whisker short of practical multiple-return-values. If we
> cracked that, we could use alternative (superior?) error state return
> mechanisms. I'd be really into that.
[…]

Return codes for value returning functions only work if the function
returns a pair, the return value and the error code: it is generally
impossible to work with return values that serve the purpose of return
value and error code. C got this fairly wrong, Go gets it fairly right.

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