I am rather fond of the jQuery style of chaining method calls, which doesnt work if methods return status codes. OTOH I dont like checked exceptions at all. M

I am rather fond of the jQuery style of chaining method calls, which doesnt work if methods return status codes. OTOH I dont like checked exceptions at all. Mainly because development teams go overboard with an exception for every type of problem. I make a call to a subsystem and I immediately have to deal with half a dozen exception types so that I dont have to clutter up the signature of my method. Especially in other peoples code where the exceptions are just swallowed leaving behind "//TODO add logging". The Either class looks like a reasonable alternative, although I would do it slightly differently. Either<String> result = myMethod(). probably with a different. result.getError(); would return some kind of error object result.getValue(); would throw an exception if there were an error. It looks promising. I think I will play with it in Java.