Re: dereferencing null

[Nathan M. Swan]

On Tuesday, 6 March 2012 at 06:27:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

scope(failure) is _not_ guaranteed to always execute on failure. It is _only_ guaranteed to run when an Exception is thrown. Any other Throwable - Errors included - skip all finally blocks, scope statements, and destructors. That's one of the reasons why it's so horrible to try and catch an Error.

Maybe not guaranteed, but this happens:

code:
import std.stdio;

void main() {
    scope(failure) writeln("bad things just happened");
    int[] x = new int[4_000_000_000_000_000_000];
}

output:
bad things just happened
core.exception.OutOfMemoryError