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Re:Ask HN: What concepts have you never truly understood? by Zababa on Monday March 07, 2022 @10:34AM (#30588954)
> I don't see why I would ever want to do the first one in real life, when exceptions exist.

Exceptions usually aren't typechecked.

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Re:Ask HN: What concepts have you never truly understood? by eternityforest on Monday March 07, 2022 @05:28PM (#30594216)
Lots of languages only let you throw stuff if explicitly declared.
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Re:Ask HN: What concepts have you never truly understood? by Zababa on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:16AM (#30597273)
Which ones? I'm not aware of any that has only checked exceptions, at least in the mainstream ones.
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