• d-bugmail puremagic.com (30/31) Apr 11 2014 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12558

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12558

          Issue ID: 12558
           Summary: try/catch allows implicit catching of Throwables
                    without specify any Exception type
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: DMD
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: andrej.mitrovich gmail.com

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import std.stdio;

void main()
{
    try {
        assert(0);
    } catch
        writeln("Caught a Throwable");
}
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$ dmd -run test.d
 Caught a Throwable

This is a misfeature and should be removed with prejudice. At the very least it
should only ever attempt to catch Exceptions and not Errors/Throwables, but I
fail to see how drowning exceptions without ever inspecting them is a good
thing.

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