proposed @noreturn attribute

[Yuxuan Shui via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 10:35:37 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 10:24:35 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It's the bottom.
> Bottom is to Types, as Object is to Classes.

Actually, Object should be considered the Top type. All Classes 
are sub-classes of Object.