Regarding nothrow and @safe

[bearophile]

Sean Eskapp:

> Does nothrow mean the function itself does not through exceptions, or that the
> function body, as well as any called functions, do not throw? I wonder because
> allocating new memory inside a @safe nothrow function works, even though I'm
> used to "new" allocations throwing exceptions or Out-Of-Memory errors.

As far as I know they have decided to make memory overflow errors, so they are not exceptions, you can't catch them. Other people will confirm this or not.

Bye,
bearophile