On Wednesday, 21 November 2018 at 17:11:23 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
For _TRIVIAL_cases this is not hard.
But we cannot only worry about trivial cases;
We have to consider _all_ cases.
Therefore we better not emit an error in a trivial case.
Which could lead users to assume that we are detecting all the
cases.
That in turn will give the impression of an unreliable system,
and indeed that impression would not be too far from the truth.
On the face of it, that seems a reasonable argument. i.e.
Consistency.
On the other-hand, I see nothing 'reliable' about handing off the
responsibility of detecting run-time errors, to the o/s ;-)
I would prefer to catch these errors at compile time, or run time.
D can do neither it seems.
