== Quote from Walter Bright ([EMAIL PROTECTED])'s article > I asked this over on stackoverflow.com to see what people using other > languages have to say, as well as the D community. The reason I ask is > to see if memory allocation can be allowed in functions marked "nothrow". > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/333736/is-out-of-memory-a-recoverable-error
Yes, but unlike some exceptions where retrying the same code may succeed, an out of memory condition almost always requires explicit handling for recovery. Because it's not typical for an application to explicitly handle memory errors however, I think an OOME can generally be treated as an unrecoverable error. I suppose it's worth mentioning that the OOME exception class derives from Error now in D 2.0, for the reasons mentioned above. Not sure if you'd simply like to judge recoverability based on the superclass choice, but it would be a simple enough rule to follow. Sean
