On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 11:08 PM Micah Kornfield wrote:
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> > If there were a scenario where it made sense to use exceptions for
> > internal control flow (but never being exposed in any public API),
> > what would others think about that?
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> I would lean against this. This seems like a slipp
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> If there were a scenario where it made sense to use exceptions for
> internal control flow (but never being exposed in any public API),
> what would others think about that?
I would lean against this. This seems like a slippery slop, but wouldn't
veto it if others felt strongly.
The other pa
While working on the kernels API, one thought that occurred to me is
that it might be simpler (for kernel implementers) to use "private"
exceptions (caught internally, never exposed to public API users) to
interrupt kernel execution on errors. Currently we have kernels that
can fail, but we only ch
