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Re:Unchecked Java: Say Goodbye to Checked Exceptions Forever by EspressoGPT on Friday July 14, 2023 @02:19AM (#36720116)
> You couldn’t do that in Go, for instance.

You can – by making f accept g's return types, including the error. This is even being done in the Go standard library: https://pkg.go.dev/text/template#Must

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Re:Unchecked Java: Say Goodbye to Checked Exceptions Forever by rcme on Friday July 14, 2023 @08:48AM (#36723181)
That’s interesting, but consider two functions like func ParseInt(string) (int, error) and func Abs(int) int. You lose some composability when using errors over exceptions. The Rust solution mentioned elsewhere seems elegant.
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