Hi! I was looking for any information about how D exceptions are arranged and I couldn't find anything but this proposal:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=21456

Is there any standard D exception hierarchy? If not, I think it's a good time to have one, because D is getting popular and people will start making it's own exception hierarchy and that would be too hard to change if D gets a standard hierarchy later.

I think there is a great experience on this on existing languages, and D first have to decide if it want to have a small set of exceptions (like C++[1] for example) or a little larger one (like Python[2] for example).

I don't really care too much on which way D should take, but I think it should take one soon.

[1] http://www.roguewave.com/support/docs/sourcepro/edition9-update1/html/stdlibref/exceptions.html
[2] http://docs.python.org/lib/module-exceptions.html

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On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:09:38PM -0300, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Is there any standard D exception hierarchy? If not, I think it's a good time to have one, because D is getting popular and people will start making it's own exception hierarchy and that would be too hard to change if D gets a standard hierarchy later.

I started to play with D last week and ran into this very quickly. I was writing bindings for some application I wrote (http://auriga.wearlab.de/~alb/nmdb/ is the app, you can browse the bindings at http://repo.or.cz/w/nmdb.git?a=tree;f=d) and I needed to raise an exception where a key in some kind of associative array was not found.

I looked up to see the standard hierarchy only to found out there was none, which was a bit of a bummer (the biggest one so far, because D looks quite nice).

Then I tried to use the same one used by the standard data type, but it required I give a file and a line number to it, which wasn't very clean either.

Finally I had to implement my own, but it would have been much better to have some standard hierarchy to use, or at least to have as a "recommended style reference" for names and inheritance.

Are there any plans to work on this?

Thanks,
		Alberto

Alberto Bertogli wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:09:38PM -0300, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> 
>>Is there any standard D exception hierarchy? If not, I think it's a good time to have one, because D is getting popular and people will start making it's own exception hierarchy and that would be too hard to change if D gets a standard hierarchy later.
> 
> 
> I started to play with D last week and ran into this very quickly. I was
> writing bindings for some application I wrote
> (http://auriga.wearlab.de/~alb/nmdb/ is the app, you can browse the
> bindings at http://repo.or.cz/w/nmdb.git?a=tree;f=d) and I needed to
> raise an exception where a key in some kind of associative array was not
> found.
> 
> I looked up to see the standard hierarchy only to found out there was
> none, which was a bit of a bummer (the biggest one so far, because D
> looks quite nice).
> 
> Then I tried to use the same one used by the standard data type, but it
> required I give a file and a line number to it, which wasn't very clean
> either.
> 
> Finally I had to implement my own, but it would have been much better to
> have some standard hierarchy to use, or at least to have as a
> "recommended style reference" for names and inheritance.
> 
> Are there any plans to work on this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 		Alberto
> 
> 

Tango has an extended set of pre-defined exceptions for this reason, and they live in tango.core.Exception. You might find something there to meet your needs?

e.g. IllegalElementException, NoSuchElementException, and IllegalArgumentException

> Tango has an extended set of pre-defined exceptions for this reason, and they live in tango.core.Exception. You might find something there to meet your needs?
> 
> e.g. IllegalElementException, NoSuchElementException, and IllegalArgumentException

But as long as Tango don't replace Phobos and become the official D standard library, this solves nothing about an standard exception hierarchy.

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Leandro Lucarella
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Leandro Lucarella Wrote:

> But as long as Tango don't replace Phobos and become the official D standard library, this solves nothing about an standard exception hierarchy.

Yeah, it does.  Write using the Tango library, and you have a standard exception hierarchy.  Unless you mean standard - everyone and everyone has to use it?

Dan escribió:
> Leandro Lucarella Wrote:
> 
>> But as long as Tango don't replace Phobos and become the official D standard library, this solves nothing about an standard exception hierarchy.
> 
> Yeah, it does.  Write using the Tango library, and you have a standard exception hierarchy.  Unless you mean standard - everyone and everyone has to use it?

No, I mean, I download an standard D compiler and I don't get Tango, I have to put an external dependency on my software.

Any other library could define it's own "standard" exception hierarchy, but that's not the idea.

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Leandro Lucarella
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