[dmd-internals] Throwing Errors

[Walter Bright]

On 3/15/2012 2:22 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Walter Bright, el 14 de marzo a las 16:45 me escribiste:
>> OutOfMemory is deliberately made not recoverable, as I've almost
>> never seen any application that can successfully recover from it.
>> Making it non-recoverable also means that pure functions can
>> allocate memory.
> Really? It seems that you never worked in a memory constrained system.
> There are applications that *really* need to take care about this.
>
> Even you say *almost*, so I guess you actually acknowledge their
> existence. If you go this route, please know that you'll make
> D a language not suitable for this king of applications.
>

If the memory constrained systems are that tight, they won't be able to use the 
GC anyway - they'll have to use malloc(), and what to do on malloc() failures is 
entirely up to the programmer.