What is throwable

[Don]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:39:52 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>>>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>> Anyhow, we should implement a model in D that allows such multiple 
>>>>> throws.
>>>>  What for?
>>>
>>> For allowing destructors to throw.
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> Are you sure this is sound?
> 
> Yes. The notion that throwing destructors should terminate the 
> application pronto is a prejudice we got from C++.
> 
> Andrei

And it causes lots of problems, in my experience. Since it usually 
doesn't terminate the app, just the thread with the defective 
destructor. Which is unnecessarily difficult to debug.