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yeah this is the one I've considered as being mildly compelling. But don't we lose the fun of having exception handling as separate to the happy path?
by Quarrelsome 5mo ago
yeah this is the one I've considered as being mildly compelling. But don't we lose the fun of having exception handling as separate to the happy path?
- exkgkkwksk 5mo agooo and support for exceptions, in particular checked exceptions, was a mistake of the 90s. We know better today, there’s a reason for why modern languages like go/rust/swift don’t use them, and why many use c++ with exceptions disabled.
- vips7L 5mo agoChecked exceptions are great. There is no difference between them and results/unions except syntax. The below all express the same thing. Swift in fact uses the checked throws syntax. Result<T,E> fn() T | E fn() T fn() throws E fn() throws(E) -> T