On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 02:08:44PM +0100, Anthony Ramine wrote:
> Are you encouraging the use of non-local returns to work around a limitation
> of the language?
>
> Literally all new programming languages made these days have such a
> short-circuiting construct some way or another that doesn't translate to
> non-local returns. I don't see what makes Erlang so special that you would
> argue it doesn't need one.
This has been debated before. Here is a post from Joe Armstrong in the
middle of a long thread about this:
http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-December/082167.html
>
> > Le 7 déc. 2018 à 12:28, Kenneth Lundin <[email protected]> a écrit :
> >
> > It is perfectly possible to use throw and try catch to replace or simplify
> > deeply-nested case ... end expressions in the same way as the proposed
> > language extension does
> >
> > <>
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