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0 pointstalideon2y ago0 comments

The _right_ way to treat them as normal values is by using sum types.

So no, Go's error handling isn't at all good. 1.13 might've made them less execrable, but it didn't make it good.

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you know i looked into it and it turns out that there is no actual consensus on what "the _right_ way" to treat errors is! huh! how about that

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0 pointstalideon2y ago0 comments

The _right_ way to treat them as normal values is by using sum types.

So no, Go's error handling isn't at all good. 1.13 might've made them less execrable, but it didn't make it good.

you know i looked into it and it turns out that there is no actual consensus on what "the _right_ way" to treat errors is! huh! how about that

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse