DIP 1002 (TryElseExpression) added to the queue

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 28 September 2016 at 07:47:32 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> * The "Breaking changes" section should include how the 
> following change in semantics would be addressed. Consider:
>
>   try
>     if (expression)
>         try { ... }
>         catch (Exception) { ... }
>     else { ... }
>   finally { ... }
>
> This code is currently legal and binds the "else" clause to the 
> "if" and the "finally" to the first "try". The proposed feature 
> will bind the "else" and the "finally" to the second try and 
> then probably fail to compile because there is no "catch" or 
> "finally" matching the first "try".

Yeah... that's a pain.

How about using different keywords:

try
{
     // blah
}
/*else*/ catch (nothrow)
{
     // on success.
}