Register based error-handling?

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On Thursday, 6 November 2014 at 09:17:55 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 November 2014 at 08:30:22 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
> Grøstad wrote:

> I've been in your shoes before, wondering why there aren't 
> better mechanisms for error handling.

Me too, I wondered a bit about this. For C-like languages, this 
is the most structured mechanism that I did find:

https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Error-Reporting.html

But, in the end, we went with standard return codes.