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It's only bad if you read "YAGN Exceptions"

• enriquto 4y ago
  But this would be very good advice! Exceptions (a.k.a. modern-flavored COMEFROM statements[0]) are extremely confusing and have no place in a clean codebase. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
  • wruza 4y ago
    Exceptions do not specify from where exactly they should “come from” and are two-way protocol akin to setjmp/longjmp. Situations where exit through few levels of stack is required do happen regardless of code cleanness, and the only alternative is to pair every call with a flow control statement, turn primary return value into a status, and add two out-arguments for error and result. Some people love this, some not really.
  • goto11 4y ago
    Exceptions are the worst, except for any other way of handling errors.
    • enriquto 4y ago
      I agree, but your sentence is empty: errors do not exist, they are just conditions that you dislike. Do not let your emotions affect the syntax for control flow!
      • goto11 4y ago
        Great, I will tell that to my customers!
  • deleted 4y ago
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• valenterry 4y ago
  Fair enough.