A Philosophy of Software Design

[Alexandru Ermicioi]

On Sunday, 28 June 2026 at 04:05:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I prefer an exception-based mechanism:
>> 
>> ```d
>> try {
>> 	writeln("hello");
>> 	writeln("betty");
>> 	...
>> } catch (Exception e) {
>> 	handleIt();
>> }
>> ```
>> 
>> Not much different from your 2nd variant, with the advantage 
>> that the
>> Exception object tells you exactly where the problem happened,
>
> It doesn't tell you which of the two writeln()s failed.

You'd typically pass this info in exception itself, therefore 
getting file and number, and runtime values causing this.