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		afiori on March 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Exceptions should be Exceptional (2016) that is why in most languages with that approach you have a symmetric error type (Either for Haskell, Result for Rust etc.)

cies on March 13, 2020 [–]

and in those langs its trivial and very common to make even more elaborate return/result types containing a very precise representation of all possible result categories.

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