DMD 1.027 and 2.011 releases

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Ary Borenszweig wrote:

> Robert Fraser escribió:
>> Extrawurst wrote:
>>> yeah but what happend to the express-such-things-via-documention
>>> policy to keep syntax simple ?
>> 
>> It looks like the bane of all my Java existence, exception
>> specifications, are back, under the mask of "optimization" this time.
>> But, unlike const, you're not required to use nothrow to make use of
>> libraries which use it, so it's up to you to ignore it or not.
> 
> In fact, it's just serves as a hint to the compiler, right? Like
> "inline" in C?

In the slides from the conference it is mentioned that nothrow is statically
checked by the compiler. 

I think it's not only about optimization, it's also useful for writing
exception-safe code.