Yeah, I’ve never understood the complaints about exceptions either: most of the time you want the exceptions to just bubble up anyway because, in that case, you

Yeah, I’ve never understood the complaints about exceptions either: most of the time you want the exceptions to just bubble up anyway because, in that case, you only have to think about the contracts of the functions you interact with and not about the unusual states you might be in. Return-type or return-value based error handling has always seemed to me to be significantly worse.