scope() statements and return

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/4/14 2:45 PM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:

> int main()
> {
>      scope(exit) return 0;
>      assert(false, "whoops!");
> }

The above smells to me like it should be invalid. Specifically, the 
scope(exit) line by itself.

If you want to catch and not propagate an error, you need to use 
try/catch directly.

scope(exit|success|failure) is for cleaning up resources, not returning 
from the function.

-Steve