On Monday, 10 July 2017 at 20:00:10 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
This means that you get errors for some instantiations. Which
ironically means you'd need to do something like this:
void foo(alias f)()
{
f();
static if(!isNoreturn!f)
{
auto a = 5;
...// etc.
}
}
Today, it's not a big issue. We can't alias `assert` function
directly, so it's obvious where it's an assert or not (because
you have to spell it out!).
We have similar problems today with generic code causing
unreachability errors. See for instance
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14835
-Steve
I think that for our own sanity the dead-code check would have to
be disabled in this case. I agree that it'd be awful putting
`static if (!isNoReturn!f)` everywhere.
Actually, why not just disable it entirely in templated functions?
