DIP 1029---Add throw as Function Attribute---Community Review Round 1

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Jan 14 20:28:15 UTC 2020


On 1/14/2020 3:21 AM, WebFreak001 wrote:
> I don't think making the attribute "throw" is the best way to go though. 
> Currently most attributes use the at-attribute syntax which makes them very 
> unambiguous and easier to (visually) parse. I would suggest instead of having 
> throw as attribute, the new attribute should be @throws instead. `throws` can 
> also be argued for that it is "better" to read like: "function foo throws" than 
> "function foo throw"

It's already a keyword so there's no problem with having it be 'throw'.

Having 'throw', 'nothrow' and 'throws' as keywords looks excessive.


> Additionally if we make this an at-attribute, it can very easily be extended in 
> the future to have arguments what kind of exceptions are being thrown by this 
> function, for example using template argument syntax to be the easiest and most 
> consistent to parse. This also exists in other languages like Java and helps 
> both with linting for try-catch, but also extremely helps with documentation.
> 
> For symmetry with nothrow it might be worth looking into providing nothrow as 
> @nothrow attribute instead too.

The @ syntax for this is simply unnecessary.



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