"I told you so": noreturn sucks a leech and has virtually no utility

Dennis dkorpel at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 17:53:52 UTC 2021


On Friday, 15 October 2021 at 17:13:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> It has been predicted by several folks that noreturn has very 
> limited utility and a variety of weird corner cases that will 
> cause a hecatomb of complications in the language, the standard 
> library, and the implementation.

Reference? I'm looking back at the DIP 1034 threads:
[Review round 1 - 
Discussion](https://forum.dlang.org/post/ooofastmtzmuylnjesyl@forum.dlang.org)
[Review round 1 - 
Feedback](https://forum.dlang.org/post/arcpszmdarekxtnsnwfl@forum.dlang.org)
[Final review - 
Discussion](https://forum.dlang.org/post/heylgwkzcpfqmqytiezq@forum.dlang.org)
[Final review - 
Feedback](https://forum.dlang.org/post/ceicwtqcalmgiteudkjd@forum.dlang.org)

I don't see it there.


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