dmd 1.074 and 2.059 release

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 14-04-2012 01:49, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 4/14/12, Robert Clipsham<robert at octarineparrot.com>  wrote:
>> It can't throw a Throwable
>
> Well now I'm confused. According to TDPL p307:
>
> "nothrow promises that the function won't throw an Exception. The
> function is still allowed to throw the graver Throwable class."
>
> And yet this is an error:
>
> nothrow void foo() {
>      throw new Throwable("");
> }
> void main() { }
>
> test.d(6): Error: object.Throwable is thrown but not caught
> test.d(4): Error: function test.foo 'foo' is nothrow yet may throw
>
> So who is the outlier here?

That sounds like an error in TDPL. AFAIK nothrow means "may only throw 
Error".

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- Alex