nothrow by default

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On Saturday, 4 January 2020 at 22:01:48 UTC, JN wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 January 2020 at 21:38:53 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>>
>> The first step is to add `throw` as a function attribute,
>>
>> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/167
>>
>> The next step will be to make nothrow the default. I have not 
>> prepared a DIP for that yet, but will.
>>
>> The short rationale is that exceptions being a "pay only if 
>> you use them" is a complete fraud. They're expensive to 
>> support, meaning performance programs use other ways of 
>> signalling errors and use nothrow.
>
> While reusing throw might be convenient, it also makes the code 
> less greppable. Kind of like static in C has three different 
> uses.

I agree, we could use "throws" instead of "throw".