Example code on D homepage does not run successfully

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 12:57:25 UTC, Ralph Tandetzky 
wrote:
> If I understand this cryptic error message correctly, the 
> problem is missing or inadequate input. There is no floating 
> point number to be parsed and hence the string "" is parsed 
> unsuccessfully which leads to an exception producing this 
> horrible error message.

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15050