• Ulrik Mikaelsson <ulrik.mikaelsson gmail.com> Jun 23 2009

Ulrik Mikaelsson <ulrik.mikaelsson gmail.com> writes:

 I suggest looking at D's scope guard statements, which replace most uses 
 of try statements.



As I've written in a few other places in the thread now, it's not about lacking
other solutions to the problem. Scope guards and the existing
exception-handling do cover all possible cases. It's neither about fear of
wearing out my bracket-keys. It's merely about readability, and slightly
shifting how the language affect how developers think about exception handling,
trying to make exception-cases a natural but separate part of each method (1).
I think I'm already seeing that same reasoing for a few other features in D,
such as the contract and unittest-constructs in the language. But those values
are highly subjective, and how the language affect the mindset is also very
difficult to assess and value without working with it for a while.

1)  I've completely abandoned the idea for other blocks than methods. It was a
bad idea from start, just ambiguous and doesn't make sense at all.