DIP 1002 (TryElseExpression) added to the queue

[pineapple via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 28 September 2016 at 20:18:06 UTC, pineapple wrote:
> This is not and was not intended to be a glorious, incredible 
> addition to the language. It is meant to shove D a couple 
> inches further in the direction of modern programming 
> constructs. Everywhere a programmer can use `else` instead of 
> mucking about with a boolean success flag and having to make 
> absolutely sure the code intended to handle a success state 
> doesn't and will never be modified to throw an exception that 
> the error handling code isn't designed for means less time 
> spent on tedium, and less opportunity for programmer error.

Or, more concisely:

Just because we have `for` doesn't mean we reject `foreach`.

Just because we have `while` doesn't mean we reject `for`.

Just because we have `goto` doesn't mean we reject `while`.