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Re:Do Not Log by slaymaker1907 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @12:29PM (#29811973)
Python and Java are two that come to mind. It is idiomatic in both to return null/None on error, but it is not idiomatic to use a result type. Hell, Python even uses exceptions to terminate iterators.

This isn't to say the idioms are never broken or that they shouldn't be broken. I agree that if you are doing something like parsing a string to an integer, that should probably be a result type and not just throw an exception.

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