Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 9 November 2021 at 11:37:49 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> Correct, but then again, anything other than machine code is 
> syntatical sugar. So is `throw new Exception("oh noes");`

No, syntactical sugar has nothing to do with the machine. It is 
sugar if it can be fully/easily replaced by other language 
constructs with no semantic/typing changes.

You technically can totally restructure a program with exceptions 
to one without, it is a rather comprehensive transformation.

You usually treat exceptions as a separate construct when 
reasoning about the type system.


>> It means you now loose context
>
> I don't see how.

In D you can throw a wide variety of exceptions and propagate 
them without even knowing that they were thrown. D even retains 
the exception chain… (perhaps too much context for most use 
cases). Clearly you loose context by "?" in comparison? Python 
also allows you to trace the stack… that is a lot of context…