On Friday, 2 March 2012 at 04:53:02 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
It's defined. The operating system protects you. You get a
segfault on *nix and
an access violation on Windows. Walter's take on it is that
there is no point
in checking for what the operating system is already checking
for - especially
when it adds additional overhead. Plenty of folks disagree, but
that's the way
it is.
- Jonathan M Davis
One thing we must consider is that this violates scope safety.
This scope(failure) doesn't execute:
import std.stdio;
void main() {
Object o = null;
scope(failure) writeln("error");
o.opCmp(new Object());
}
That's _very_ inconsistent with the scope(failure) guarantee of
_always_ executing.
NMS
