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		usrnm on May 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles... If they are really exceptional situations that should never happen, just crash the process. The moment recover was added they become just another error handling mechanism

randomdata on May 1, 2024 [–]

You would crash the process. But, sometimes it's useful to do a little bookkeeping first.

usrnm on May 2, 2024 | [–]

That's not how recover is used in practice

randomdata on May 2, 2024 | | [–]

Right. In practice, people don't even realize that Go has an exception handling system (see rest of thread) to use.

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