color lib

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 7 October 2016 at 11:42, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 October 2016 at 03:03, Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 6 October 2016 at 14:53:52 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>>
>>> I've done another pass incorporating prior feedback, mostly focusing on
>>> documentation.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://dtest.thecybershadow.net/artifact/website-b6e2e44dd40dd7c70eb45829c02060b99ae3937b-57272ccdf902fa3f0c050d522129f2be/web/library-prerelease/std/experimental/color.html
>>>
>>> Can interested parties please give it another once-over and add
>>> further comments?
>>> How can I get this to a point where people would like to see it in phobos?
>>>
>>> Repo: https://github.com/TurkeyMan/color
>>> PR: https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/2845
>>
>>
>> Could you please make `colorFromString` nothrow @nogc? Or make `nothrow
>> @nogc` analog. -- Ilya
>
> I think throwing is the precedented action in that failure case...
> what would you suggest?
> I could have an overload that returns an error or something...?

Problem with overloading is that the function type only differs by
return type... is there a phobos convention for function naming where
a parallel nothrow @nogc version is also supplied?