On Friday, 21 November 2014 at 16:57:29 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:56:17 +0000
> schrieb "Jonathan Marler" <johnnymarler@gmail.com>:
>
>> I actually ran into this problem today when using the dirEntries function in std.file.  I was attempting to iterate all the files on my C drive and I got an Access Denied error which caused the DirIterator to throw an exception.  There's nothing I could do to catch the exception and continue.  I'm very glad people are aware of this problem and I'm glad you are trying to do something about it.
>
> Yep, that dirEntries Exception is quite the show stopper. You
> need to be certain that you have access to all directories
> that it may encounter, which makes it unusable for file system
> roots, but also breaks way to easily with unreadable
> directories in user directories when all you need is a list of
> the _accessible_ files.
>
> The bug reports so far:
>
> std.file: dirEntries-range crashes, when hitting the system folder "System Volume Information"
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12513
>
> DirEntries throws in foreach
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12391
>
> dirEntries throws when encountering a "long path" on windows
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8967

Submitted my idea as a PR in phobos here: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2655

On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 00:46:11 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
> On Friday, 21 November 2014 at 16:57:29 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
>> Am Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:56:17 +0000
>> schrieb "Jonathan Marler" <johnnymarler@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> I actually ran into this problem today when using the dirEntries function in std.file.  I was attempting to iterate all the files on my C drive and I got an Access Denied error which caused the DirIterator to throw an exception.  There's nothing I could do to catch the exception and continue.  I'm very glad people are aware of this problem and I'm glad you are trying to do something about it.
>>
>> Yep, that dirEntries Exception is quite the show stopper. You
>> need to be certain that you have access to all directories
>> that it may encounter, which makes it unusable for file system
>> roots, but also breaks way to easily with unreadable
>> directories in user directories when all you need is a list of
>> the _accessible_ files.
>>
>> The bug reports so far:
>>
>> std.file: dirEntries-range crashes, when hitting the system folder "System Volume Information"
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12513
>>
>> DirEntries throws in foreach
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12391
>>
>> dirEntries throws when encountering a "long path" on windows
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8967
>
> Submitted my idea as a PR in phobos here: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2655

Woops wrong link, heres the right one: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2768

On Saturday, 15 November 2014 at 01:43:07 UTC, Robert burner Schadek wrote:
> This PR https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2724 adds an generic way of handling Exception in Range processing. quickfur and Dicebot ask me to start a thread here so the concept could be discussed.

We are currently searching for a name for an enum that is used to select which methods of the range to handle.

Current ideas are found in the PR. please have a look and give comments.

On Saturday, 27 December 2014 at 22:14:41 UTC, Robert burner
Schadek wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 November 2014 at 01:43:07 UTC, Robert burner Schadek wrote:
>> This PR https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2724 adds an generic way of handling Exception in Range processing. quickfur and Dicebot ask me to start a thread here so the concept could be discussed.
>
> We are currently searching for a name for an enum that is used to select which methods of the range to handle.
>
> Current ideas are found in the PR. please have a look and give comments.

I don't like RangeMethod because the term ‘Method’ is not used by
the language documentation, which only uses the term ‘member
function’. Some range primitives aren't necessarily functions
either. What about RangePrimitive?

On 12/28/2014 7:49 AM, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 December 2014 at 22:14:41 UTC, Robert burner
> Schadek wrote:
>> On Saturday, 15 November 2014 at 01:43:07 UTC, Robert burner Schadek
>> wrote:
>>> This PR https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2724
>>> adds an generic way of handling Exception in Range processing.
>>> quickfur and Dicebot ask me to start a thread here so the concept
>>> could be discussed.
>>
>> We are currently searching for a name for an enum that is used to
>> select which methods of the range to handle.
>>
>> Current ideas are found in the PR. please have a look and give comments.
>
> I don't like RangeMethod because the term ‘Method’ is not used by
> the language documentation, which only uses the term ‘member
> function’. Some range primitives aren't necessarily functions
> either. What about RangePrimitive?

RangeAction?