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On Sunday, 8 November 2015 at 02:51:33 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 November 2015 at 22:26:53 UTC, David Nadlinger 
> wrote:
>> On Saturday, 7 November 2015 at 21:00:58 UTC, Fyodor Ustinov 
>> wrote:
>>> We do not have way to in "scope(failure)" or "scope(exit)" 
>>> detect - it's "assert" or "throw".
>>
>> Indeed. But the point is that _all_ Errors (of which 
>> AssertError is one example) are throwable from `nothrow` 
>> functions, and as such might not unwind the stack as you would 
>> expect.
>>
>>  — David
>
> Dumb question, does nothrow affect codegen?

I don't know if it does right now, but in the future with things 
like RC I'd imagine it definitely would (ARC is cheaper if you 
can guarantee no exceptions). I feel like there is some cases 
right now where it does, but I don't know about that.