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Why I Prefer Exceptions to Error Values (cedardb.com)

submitted 2 months ago by AlexKochetkova@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I shaped my words poorly. What I meant is that errors are sort of equivalent to exceptions, but errors are first class citizens of type system, and this is an improvement over exceptions being kind of independent of type

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

Ah it was intentional and now I see how it was meant. It makes perfectly sense, it was just not clear before. :-) Human language and interpreter is not as precise like programming language.^^