What is the point of nothrow?

[bauss]

On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 17:25:18 UTC, wjoe wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 22:27:42 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> On Thursday, 14 June 2018 at 19:06:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
>> wrote:
>> So in case of a thrown Error, you can catch it and log it to a 
>> database.
>>
>
> No, you can't. Once the Error was thrown the program is in 
> invalid state and you can't assume the logging to database will 
> succeed.

Sure you can assume it will succeed, BUT in 9/10 cases it will 
and in those cases it's worth it.

I do that and it has proven to work every single time for me.

You can't assume it will succeed writing to a log file either.

In either cases you just have to try and hope for the best.