#exceptions

lukaseder 14 Jul 2017 1 min read

Every now and then, I tweet something like this, just to piss off some clean coders: Call me what you want, but I like the occasional break-out-of-if pic.twitter.com/kQ0BIkijz0 — Lukas Eder (@lukaseder) July 13, 2017 Apart from the obvious trolling factor (why can’t I ever resist?), I do think there’s something thought provoking in such … Continue reading Don’t Extract…

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Dave Cheney 25 Jan 2015 5 min read

In my previous post, I doubled down on my claim that Go’s error handling strategy is, on balance, the best. In this post, I wanted to take this a bit further, and prove that multiple returns and error values are the best, When I say best, I obviously mean, of the set of choices available […]

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Dave Cheney 3 Nov 2014 2 min read

Revisiting my post about error handling and exceptions, written well before Go hit 1.0, I’m pleased that it stands the test of time. Java has comprehensively demonstrated that checked exceptions (actually having both checked and unchecked exceptions) has been a disaster for the evolution of the language. Checked exceptions have placed a suffocating yoke of backward compatibility on […]

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lukaseder 24 Feb 2014 1 min read

Java 7 has eased some pain in the area of exception handling when the new try-with-resources and multi-catch syntaxes were introduced. The latter is very interesting from a syntax perspective because it is the only place in Java where formal union types are allowed, similar to what Ceylon offers. Remember, a union type A | … Continue reading Feature Request…

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