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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 d

by 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.