Discussion Thread: DIP 1034--Add a Bottom Type (reboot)--Final Review

[Dennis]

On Tuesday, 22 September 2020 at 17:46:07 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> Well, what about determinism, reasoning about halting, 
> real-time contexts, time sharing, functional safety, 
> async/await control, FSM constraints, resource management,..., 
> etc

I get why asynchronous execution and time-outs are useful, but 
why do you want a time-out that results in the entire program 
crashing? To me it looks like you'd want a function returning a 
Nullable!T which is null in case of a time out, instead of a 
`noreturn` function which is guaranteed to always fail.

> Well, strictly not bottom type, but it could be related,like 
> (pseudo-code) @timeout(500.msecs, doSomething(), return 
> something)

So does your proposal fit in this DIP?