Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

[Atila Neves]

On Monday, 8 November 2021 at 14:23:15 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Monday, 8 November 2021 at 14:08:32 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> I thought Rust error handling wasn't easy by default until 
>> they added the ? operator, at which point it became like 
>> exceptions but better.
>
> Looks like syntactical sugar to me, but I am no Rust expert.

Correct, but then again, anything other than machine code is 
syntatical sugar. So is `throw new Exception("oh noes");`

> It means you now loose context

I don't see how.

> and how do you log?

The same way in pretty much any and all programs written that 
handles exceptions - some outer loop, possibly in the main 
function.

>> To me that was always the issue with error handling without 
>> exceptions - how to easily just propagate it up (nearly always 
>> what one wants to do). I think they nailed it.
>
> For simple situations maybe, but it looks like a hack, as far 
> as I can tell from the docs.

I disagree. To me, it has all the convenience of exceptions with 
none of the drawbacks.