Interestingly enough C++ has a recent proposal that converges to a similar design from the other direction (i.e. exceptions). http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22

Interestingly enough C++ has a recent proposal that converges to a similar design from the other direction (i.e. exceptions). http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p0709r2.pdf http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p070... It's still a lot more implicit than go's design, as it's meant to be compatible with regular exceptions.