On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 08:07:28 UTC, Stephan wrote:
> Actually that is exactly what I like about it! Performance of exceptions in D is very bad and right now I am trying to reduce using them wherever I can.

The alternative is the "everything went better than expected" approach. I'd prefer to let programs break and performance suffer when something is wrong with them.

On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 08:47:50 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 08:07:28 UTC, Stephan wrote:
>> Actually that is exactly what I like about it! Performance of exceptions in D is very bad and right now I am trying to reduce using them wherever I can.
>
> The alternative is the "everything went better than expected" approach. I'd prefer to let programs break and performance suffer when something is wrong with them.

I agree with this and have hacked onto vibed json to throw exceptions unless a custom a custom version(JsnoNoThrow) is provided.

Cheers,
ed