List of Phobos functions that allocate memory?

[Brad Anderson]

On Thursday, 6 February 2014 at 22:19:42 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 February 2014 at 22:15:11 UTC, Brad Anderson 
> wrote:
>> Personally I don't think bad user input qualifies as an 
>> exceptional case because it's expected to happen and the 
>> program is expected to handle it (and let the user know) when 
>> it does. That's just a matter of taste though.
>
> I agree. It kills the whole concept of "exceptions are rare so 
> they don't need to be fast when thrown". But it is how quite 
> lot of Phobos is currently designed and, in my opinion, is 
> biggest design mistake of vibe.d too (it uses exceptions to 
> propagate HTTP status codes)

I must admit that I am guilty of sometimes using exceptions for 
routine control flow too. It's just so convenient compared to 
validation/consumption.

Maybe we should make a list of Phobos functions that throw 
exceptions and ensure that (for the ones where this makes sense) 
they non-throwing validators available. If we can stop gc 
allocating them that'd be even better but I don't think them 
being gc allocating should hold up @nogc.