On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 14:48:26 -0700 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> There's no interesting way to check this because functions don't list > the exceptions they might throw (like Java does). -- Andrei sure there is no way to check. this 'final try' helper is required exactly 'cause compiler can't do necessary checks, and programmer can assure compiler that "it's ok, we'll catching 'em all here!" this way 'try/catch' will not be "nothrow", only 'final try/catch'. and there will be *nothing* that can be catched outside of 'final try/catch'. i.e. if something was not catched in 'final', it's a fatal bug. crash-boom-band, we are dead. but i don't want to create ER, 'cause it will be rejected. it implies code breaking ("simple" try/catch can't be used in 'nothrow' functions anymore), and ERs with code breaking feature have no chances.
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