"weaselcat" <weasel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 07:09:54 UTC, Tobias Müller wrote: >> - Error codes are automatically ignored >> - Exceptions are automatically propagated >> >> IMO both are not ideal and lead to sloppy programming. >> Ignoring errors is of course worse than aborting where you > could have >> handled the error. >> >> Rust-style "packed" errors are nice because you are forced to > think about >> the correct handling. > > There's nothing stopping you from just throwing errors out in Rust(last I > used it anyways) via empty match statements and/or unwrap.
But you have to do so explicitly. You cannot just remove every possibility to ignore errors, because sometimes it is justified. BTW: 'unwrap' panics if it contains an error. But that's not really important here.
