Re: RE: Announcing RFC 'Anonymous Catches'
| From: | Johannes Schlüter | Date: | Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:23:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RE: Announcing RFC 'Anonymous Catches' | ||
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On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 13:19 -0700, Stas Malyshev wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > If I'm to understand this RFC correctly, it is nothing more than a
> > random suggestion someone posed in the form of a tweet and the author is
> > saying why not add it since it's not hard to implement. So in summation
>
> Well, here we go - this is why not add it, because it makes working with
> such code harder without actually benefiting anybody.
+1
Right now I set a breakpoint in my editor and look at an exception even
if it is not used, in future I'd have to change the code for that.
> > So this entire discussion can be summed up nicely with "Let's make the
> > variable optional because... why not?".
>
> "Why not" is usually not a very good principle of language design, IMO.
+100
johannes