'unwrap envy' and exceptions

[Paul Backus]

On Friday, 10 September 2021 at 15:44:04 UTC, jfondren wrote:
> On Friday, 10 September 2021 at 15:26:18 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> Nullable doesn't replace exceptions, it specifies a value 
>> which is legitimately absent, not due to an error
>
> Asking for the maximum of an empty array is an error case 
> (hence D's minElement/maxElement thrown an AssertError, not 
> even a catchable exception)

Strangely, there is no mention of this in the documentation for 
either `minElement` or `maxElement`. And it's also inconsistent 
with other similar functions in `std.algorithm.searching`; for 
example, `minCount` and `maxCount` throw an `Exception` on an 
empty range.