Feedback from the Gripes and Wishes Campaign

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 27/05/2023 1:28 AM, Max Samukha wrote:
> On Friday, 26 May 2023 at 12:42:41 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote:
>> Go is an unusually atrocious implementation. In a not terrible 
>> language, it just looks like `foo()?.bar()?.baz`.
> 
> The whole point of exceptions was to remove that kind of syntactic 
> noise. I still don't understand why people want to throw away the 
> convenience instead of fixing problems it has.

Replacement of the exception mechanism does not imply replacing 
exception syntax.

You can still have throw/try/catch syntax and use sumtypes to return a 
value or exceptions structs.

I.e. 
https://github.com/rikkimax/DIPs/blob/value_type_exceptions/DIPs/DIP1xxx-RC.md