[OT] Apple introduces Swift as Objective-C sucessor

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 07:13 +0000, ponce via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 04:35:18 UTC, Russel Winder via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >
> > I think Pike, Cox, et al. disagree; for them exceptions are 
> > only a
> > termination mechanism and return codes are the way of 
> > communicating. If
> > Swift has no exceptions, then Apple must be following the Go 
> > model
> > rather than the D, Python, (C++ ?), etc. one.
> >
> 
> It seems interesting to note that for M# it's the exact reverse, 
> exceptions are for recoverable errors and crashing is for 
> unrecoverable ones (I lost the link to the reference).

This is very much the Java model: exceptions are for exceptional events
that can be handled or not. 

In Python of course exceptions are just control flow.

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