On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:43:40 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > On 4/10/2017 2:44 PM, Jonathan Marler wrote: >> Another way to think of it is that this proposal makes "throw new" into >> a special operator that is different than composing the "throw" and >> "new" operations independently. Once you realize this it's easy to >> understand and explain to others as well, i.e. >> >> "throw" operator (throw a Throwable object) >> "new" operator (create a GC object) >> "throw new" operator (create and throw a reference-counted Throwable >> object) > > That's right. Thanks for helping out, your explanations are better than > mine! > > (Once I realized this myself, the implementation got a lot simpler.)
I have no problem with this specific change, but this method of solving problems is going to turn D into a horrible language with all kinds of weird edge cases. I left Python for D mostly because the language was becoming one hack built on top of another; it would be nice if D could avoid that path. The occasional kludge may be necessary, but it shouldn't be normal or the first thought. --Ryan
