What is the point of nothrow?

[bauss]

On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 17:27:13 UTC, bauss wrote:
> 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.

There is a reason that I have not gotten rid of this: 
http://diamondmvc.org/docs/logging/#database-logging

It just _works_ most of the time and really helpful when you do 
not have access to the server and/or the standard output/console.