• Exceptions as control flow

  

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  Published on: 2020-09-22 What do I mean by using exceptions as a control flow mechanism? I - Exceptions as control flow mechanism The gist of it is replacing something like: if isinstance(a, duck): a.quack() else: bar() With something like: try: a.quack() except: bar() Writing control flows using an if/switch/etc in...

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• [$] Python exception groups

  

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  Exceptions in Python are a mechanism used to report errors (of an exceptional variety); programs can...

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• You Can't Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone

  

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  You Can't Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone While exceptions are an important tool, they also introduce what is arguably the least intuitive form of control flow in mainstream languages. Exceptions are far harder to reason about. The code raising an exception is not tied to the code that will be handling it. In a dynamic language like Ruby, identifying how a...

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