[Joke] C++ and D namings

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On Wednesday, 20 January 2021 at 01:04:07 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/19/21 4:50 PM, Q. Schroll wrote:
>> In C++, the noexcept specifier means you cannot throw anything.
>> In D,   the nothrow  specifier means you cannot throw 
>> Exceptions, but anything else.
>
> Except that in C++, noexcept really means you can throw 
> anything but you're not supposed to. Important distinction...

Yup, one things that people miss is that noexcept actually makes 
things more expensive because the compiler has to add checks that 
you aren't throwing something. These are runtime checks that 
happen when unwinding an exception.