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That’s what (unchecked) exceptions are for. They’re supported by all general purpose programming languages because we — as developers — are smarter than the co

• nardi 9y ago
  1. GP is talking about type safety in general, not just exceptions. 2. Not “all general purpose programming languages” support exceptions. To name a few that don’t: C, Rust, Go.
  • bpp 9y ago
    Go has the empty interface, if you really need it.
    • majewsky 9y ago
      The empty interface is not an unchecked exception, but panic() is. https://golang.org/pkg/builtin/#panic https://golang.org/pkg/builtin/#panic
      • nardi 9y ago
        I don’t actually know Go, but can panic() be caught? If not, it’s not an exception.
        • ovao 9y ago
          With recover(), yes.