To give an example, the functionality of `?` in Rust used to be provided by the `try` macro (https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/macro.try.html https://doc.rust-lang

To give an example, the functionality of `?` in Rust used to be provided by the `try` macro (https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/macro.try.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/macro.try.html). Dedicated syntax was later added because it made a lot of code cleaner and easier to read, at the expense of a minimal upfront learning cost.