proposed @noreturn attribute

[Marc Schütz via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 16 July 2017 at 20:44:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Perhaps we go the inverse route and define the bottom type as 
> typeof(*null). Would that simplify matters? There is some good 
> consistency about it:
>
> null: a pointer to anything. But can't be dereferenced.
> *null: well, therefore... anything. But can't be created.

That sounds more like a top type, though, because as you said it 
can be "anything". A bottom type can not be anything, but only 
nothing.