More exception classes into Phobos?

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2017-03-24 20:38, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> It's already kind enough on my part to actually
> want to use std.format to produce a message that a human reader might
> find helpful, like "syntax error on line 36: unexpected character 'x'".
> I could have just done a `throw new Exception("syntax error");` and be
> done with it.  At least I, the human, would read that message if the
> Exception got thrown, but put in additional effort so that it's
> parseable by code? No thanks.

If it's a specific exception type with a specific field for the line 
number and a field for a filename (if applicable) then it can be used in 
a text editor to navigate to that file and highlight the line.

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/Jacob Carlborg