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Noel Chiappa writes:
> I was just astonished that in a long thread about handling exceptional
> conditions, nobody had mentioned . . . exceptions.  Clearly, either
> unfamiliarity (perhaps because not many laguages provide them - as you
> point out, Go does not), or not top of mind.

Seems to me exceptions are quite mainstream: CLU, C++, Java, C#,
JavaScript, Python all have them.  Arguably Go too, in the form of
panic/recover.