"yeet" is being used as a placeholder for a keyword which will rethrow errors to a caller. It probably won't actually be called "yeet"; they're just using a deliberately silly keyword to keep discussion focused on the functionality.

https://areweyeetyet.rs/

I’m puzzled as to why this PR used “do yeet” and not just “yeet”. Are they bikeshed-avoiding the bikeshed-avoidance because just “yeet” would actually be ergonomic and fun and therefore become a candidate if not deliberately sabotaged? Was “yeet” too credible? Is this admission paving the way for actually using “yeet” as the final syntax later? This drama and more, nightly at 7pm.

`do` already was a reserved keyword, so it doesn't cause any conflicts with identifiers when parsing

> probably

Pretty much guaranteed, as "do yeet" is also rather long. Likely some new edition introduced keyword/syntax or similar will be used.

Also while yeet is "fun" very few want to see it in the language for real ;)

"yeet is for the people" is a wonderful quote from that page.

I mean.. "rethrow" sounds fine?

Your comment demonstrates why they chose "yeet". People start discussing the name before the feature, and choosing a name that is obviously not the final one lets them say "look, you don't have to discuss this yet".

Well, if they wanted people not to discuss the name, picking a polarizing, very distinctive, extremely annoying name is about the worst thing they could have done, even as a temporary placeholder.

It's not necessarily a "re-"throw. It could just be a throw of a newly detected error, like:

    try {
        if bad_thing {
            do yeet Error::new(...);
        }
        carry_on()
    }

Just plain "throw" would probably be fine, but I understand not wanting to bikeshed it at this stage.

Weirdly, "yeet" really does convey the sense of "just give up and chuck this thing back instead" that makes it a reasonable nice converse of "try", i.e. "try { yeet }".

They haven't even decided if this should be a language feature at all, an you are already bikeshedding the name...

Bikeshedding from the outside is fine. As long as actual decision makers and productive project members aren't participating, bikeshedding can even be fun.

Be careful with that - some Rust team members are active around HN [1], some are even participating in the comment section for this post. So I guess we need to exclude them from the outsider-exclusive bikeshedding event.

I agree, bikeshedding can be fun, as long as it's not during a meeting.

[1] Steve Klabnik, I know you're going to see this - just wanted to say hi, I hope you're having a nice day :)

I'm doing okay, thanks! I'm not on any Rust teams, anymore, though.

There are some other folks around so your point isn't incorrect, only about me.

It's not really my place to warn you since it's not my problem, but I take exception to your assertion that the poster is in error. I think we should raise the bar, and check ourselves when being too critical. Try not to panic when other folk throw out ideas, even when you find fault in them. I didn't expect this to be a political topic, unlike abortion the last few days. Yeetsh!

I've been recently working on a new system that involves a custom IDL. We ended up adding a "[<=]" syntax, but we were worried it would be confusing to new developers. We realized it would make people happy to have an excuse to type smiley faces, though.

I guess folk here don't like puns.

Bikeshedding is a major pain for developing in large projects.

Naming bikeshedding is one of the worst kind of bikeshedding.

By now I'm sure of two things:

- People will not agree on a name.

- People will diverge any technical discussion again and again and again because they need to discuss naming.

So in the end most likely there will be some formal or informal survey and then the language teem will do a top-down decisions for one of the more well liked candidates, it's as far as I can tell pretty much the best way to go. (Theoretically you could have a vote, but then you need a proper not easily manipulated voting system people need to take serious, or it will be named not yeet in the end because people are trolls).

EDIT: Also this is not a developer discussion so I guess it's fine here ;)

Oh, if we're bike shedding I propose ¿ as the natural syntax (because it jumps to ?.) /s

leaving it as yeet sounds fine to me honestly