nothrow by default

[Timon Gehr]

On 10.01.20 02:28, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/9/2020 2:10 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 09.01.20 11:32, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> I wouldn't mind us getting rid of Error in favor of killing the 
>>> program on
>>> the spot, since that's actually better for debugging,
>>
>> It really depends. There are situations where it may be better, but if 
>> you are trying to debug a non-deterministic condition that happens 
>> very rarely on someone else's machine exclusively in release builds, 
>> depending on a lot of user input, druntime shutting down the code that 
>> is supposed to collect enough information for you to have a chance to 
>> figure out what is going on in detail can hardly be described as 
>> "better". It should be possible to hook the kill function at least.
> 
> Hooking the kill function is the way to do that - much better than 
> exception unwinding.

Exception unwinding gives you a stack trace.