The solution to "Error handling"...

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On Sunday, 5 July 2026 at 23:36:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Another term that describes his proposal is a "black hole 
> object", which accepts all input but does nothing.
>
> The main thrust of his argument is eliminating the `if` 
> statements that check for error states.

Ya... I don't agree with him at all on that. His approach to 
reducing paths dedicated to error handling in his code is to 
ignore those errors - which is what his "nil struct" solution 
does. I don't think it's a good design at all. One thing that 
WOULD genuinely help reduce errors is leveraging type system 
invariants to make certain invalid states impossible - a great 
language-level solution is not having null pointers - but he is 
explicitly against that in this article.