nothrow by default

[Andre Pany]

On Thursday, 9 January 2020 at 10:32:25 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 8, 2020 11:26:41 PM MST Walter Bright via 
> Digitalmars- d wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I would really hope not. IMHO, they are usually by far the best 
> way to handle error conditions in a program. Anything else 
> results in you having to deal with the various possible error 
> conditions when the function returns, which is _far_ more 
> unwieldy and much more error-prone. It also doesn't work well 
> with function call chaining.
>
> [...]

I absolutely agree with all your points. From a compiler 
developer view, Walter is right. But from an application 
developer view, reducing the usability of Exceptions is terrible 
bad.

Kind regards
Andre