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0 pointskuschku9y ago0 comments

I mean that the compiler does not check if I’m handling the error. I can easily just ignore the error and work with the value, and therefore have code that breaks if the value might not be there.

Any code that compiles should not be able to ever segfault or have NullPointerExceptions or similar.

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cube22229y ago· 2 in thread

Well, I never had segfaults.

Anyways, it's true, I miss pattern matching on errors.

However, in practice, you just get used to it. I haven't had a situation in the past half year where I'd forget to handle the error / check it.

kuschkuOP9y ago

> However, in practice, you just get used to it. I haven't had a situation in the past half year where I'd forget to handle the error / check it.

But with the same argument, you could as well use PHP7.

And this still doesn’t allow you to replace all stdlib datatypes with your own implementations without using custom precompilers.

cube22229y ago

Excuse me, what do you mean by 'replace all stdlib datatypes with your own implementations'. Why would I do that?

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