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Re:LLVM Programmer’s Manual by yoklov on Friday July 22, 2016 @11:11AM (#12144011)
It's also encoded in the return type of the function, so you get static type checking -- a property not present for exceptions.
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Re:LLVM Programmer’s Manual by barrkel on Friday July 22, 2016 @03:26PM (#12146108)
You say that like it's desirable. I think Java's experience of checked exceptions shows that it's of very dubious benefit.
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