<div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 at 8:44 Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="gmail_msg">
on Fri Feb 17 2017, Joe Groff <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Experience in other languages like Rust and Haskell that use<br class="gmail_msg">
> Result-based error propagation suggests that a single error type is<br class="gmail_msg">
> adequate, and beneficial in many ways.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="gmail_msg">
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And experience in still others, like C++ and Java, suggests that<br class="gmail_msg">
using static types to restrict the kind of information a function can<br class="gmail_msg">
give you when an error occurs may actually be harmful.</blockquote><div>+1 here. It becomes wrapping over wrapping over wrapping. Try doing a big app in Java (i.e. some kind of layered server) and you'll understand everything. Ones who tried and still want it - well, there are different tastes out there.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="gmail_msg">
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-Dave<br class="gmail_msg">
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