The designers of Go rejected exceptions because, while seemingly simple, they are exceptionally hard to do correctly, and worse, it is extremely hard and subtle

The designers of Go rejected exceptions because, while seemingly simple, they are exceptionally hard to do correctly, and worse, it is extremely hard and subtle to distinguish between code that reasons about them correctly and code that does not. Raymond Chen has a good break-down of the problem here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/14/352949.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/14/35294...