Exceptions come with their own weirdness. Usually, if you want to handle an exception, you need to wrap the code that could generate it in a block, which means

Exceptions come with their own weirdness. Usually, if you want to handle an exception, you need to wrap the code that could generate it in a block, which means any variables declared there won't be available in the parent scope. I'd much rather have the ability to just write normal code and deal with the error on the spot, along with some syntactic sugar (such as "?") to return that error to the caller.