proposed @noreturn attribute

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jul 9 06:13:28 PDT 2017


On 7/9/17 1:36 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> If we wanted to be cute we could use `typeof()` to represent this type 
>> as there is no value you can give to typeof such that it returns the 
>> bottom type. It also avoids having to come up with some special symbol 
>> or name for it.
> 
> That is indeed an interesting idea. Thanks!

We should use typeof(assert(0)) for Bottom. There is precedent - there 
is no name for typeof(null). -- Andrei


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