[phobos] isemail error handling

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

It's a sort of a status code. Different applications are fine with 
different status codes.

Andrei

On 3/4/11 5:47 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> I agree, it is not an "error", and so should not be an exception.
>
> Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> Is there a reason to make them exceptions? The whole point is to tell
>> you if it is or is not a function. I would not consider it an error
>> code more a "reason code" (why it wasn't an email address).
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
>>> I've ported the isemail module from PHP to D and I'm now working on
>>> adding exceptions instead of error codes. The PHP function takes an
>>> error level parameter indicating what kind of error level you want.
>>> You can pass in a warning and error level and possible others as
>>> well. You can also turn the error handling completely off. If the
>>> error handling is turned off the function will only return "true" or
>>> "false" indicating if the email address is valid or not.
>>>
>>> If the error handling is on the function will return 0 if the email
>>> address is valid or otherwise an error code indicating what the error
>>> was.
>>>
>>> The question I now has is: should we keep these different error
>>> levels or should we just have a parameter indicating if the error
>>> handling is on or off?
>>>
>>>
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