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Comment by afiori

14 days ago

I feel like exceptions where added as a mix of "look we can do that too" and "maybe if so many functions return optional values then it is going to be too much of a pain to use"

In hindsight I think few would now regret not having added them in the first place.

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fire_lake  14 days ago

> maybe if so many functions return optional values then it is going to be too much of a pain to use

I strongly believe that there is a point in the PL design space that makes optionals everywhere usable. Maybe Haskell can still be the language that delivers this.