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middayctoday at 1:18 PM1 replyview on HN

But sometimes you must act on exceptional situations, recover, take alternative route, provide default, or translate exception from lower level one to a higher level one. From cause based to more intent based. Err, file not found setup.txt -> Couldn't read your setup -> ...

Which its great if this also doesn't loose lower level information, but just wraps it, so end user could dig into the error.


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mike_hocktoday at 1:23 PM

> But sometimes you must act on exceptional situations, recover, take alternative route, provide default

And then the Rye version is presumably just as verbose.

> or translate exception from lower level one to a higher level one

This is the actual flaw in exception-based languages. Adding context should be much more convenient.

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