Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

[Atila Neves]

On Tuesday, 9 November 2021 at 16:44:50 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 09.11.21 16:39, Atila Neves wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 9 November 2021 at 13:26:20 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
>> Grøstad wrote:
>>> [...]
>> 
>> If there are no exceptions and one is returning regular 
>> values, then the call stack is... the call stack. Given that 
>> "?" returns the original failure with whatever extra data it 
>> had, I really don't see what the difference is.
>> 
>> 
>
> Having a stack trace with line numbers is a big deal in case 
> the exception was unexpected.

Good point. I hadn't thought of that.