Why exceptions for error handling is so important

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On Friday, 16 January 2015 at 00:48:57 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 January 2015 at 21:29:28 UTC, Tobias Müller 
> wrote:
>> In a well-designed interface, every function specifies all the 
>> errors that might happen.
>
>
> BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !

'tis true, unfortunately implementations don't match the spec...

But that ought to be machine verifiable. Shitty compilers.