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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 05:54:23 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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   • Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!

   @eniko Well for me the problem with exceptions in most programming languages is how you can't even know which exceptions if any would a function throw, even though it ought to be part of something like the function signature. So for some programs you end up with some ugly catch-all in main.

   Which is why I think Hare got error handling right, it's very close to exceptions as they can propagate all the way down to main with ?, but the compiler checks your work unless you assert against errors via !.
   https://harelang.org/tutorials/introduction#handling-errors

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     Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! (eniko@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 05:54:25 JST Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!

     so i know that it's modern to hate exceptions in programming languages, but what are the alternatives besides obsessively checking every return value? this includes monads which are just fancily obsessively checking return values while wearing a top hat and monocle