Re: RE: Announcing RFC 'Anonymous Catches'

On 25 June 2013 22:23, Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de> wrote: > 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. Hrm, this is a very good point! >> > 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. Nothing more to add. -- Regards, Mike