Yes, I do about 25% of my daily dev in Python and have done so for years, and I'm well aware that this is idiomatic in Python. Python was the specific language I was thinking of when I said "almost".
> I guess this prescription about exceptions was made with some specific language in mind and it is dangerous to generalize.
I guess this post about generalizing was made ignoring the word "almost" and it is dangerous to ignore qualifiers.
Re:Try Three Times
by scardine on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @08:45AM
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I still think "almost any language" is a stretch, but I'm not in the mood of profiling several languages in order to assert this claim - without numbers my experience is as anecdotal as yours.
> I guess this prescription about exceptions was made with some specific language in mind and it is dangerous to generalize.
I guess this post about generalizing was made ignoring the word "almost" and it is dangerous to ignore qualifiers.