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Python errors as values (www.inngest.com)
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[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I disagree, I hate that keyword. Exceptions should be... exceptional, and regular errors should be data. I only want to see exception blocks at top levels for logging and whatnot, everything else should be destructured monads in a match block or similar.

Forgetting a function can throw exceptions is an honest mistake, ignoring errors when you've destructured a return value to get the data is a choice. The former is hard to catch, the latter is plainly obvious in a code review.

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