On the panel discussion at Dconf day 3

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 26/03/2024 2:58 PM, electricface wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 September 2023 at 02:12:17 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> On Saturday, 9 September 2023 at 19:06:24 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> For the moment EH is a problem, but it's known problem, and one that 
>> was discussed at length at DConf. From what I gathered Walter wants to 
>> move in the direction of a Herb Sutter style system where exceptions 
>> are returned up the stack silently via a shadow value in the return 
>> statement. It's actually a pretty elegant solution. It's not here now 
>> because of the pause, but
> 
> I also think that this kind of exception handling would be more 
> efficient. When can we expect to see any actual progress on this feature?

I'm currently waiting on sum types to continue towards a DIP.

It depends upon it for catch all, plus there may be some reuse in the 
compiler.