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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah, if your language does not support error values, do not use them.

Nonsense. If adopting info of the many libraries already available is not for you, it's trivial to roll your own result type.

Even if that was somehow unexplainably not an option, even the laziest of developers can write a function to return a std::tuple or a std::pair and use structured binding.

[–] marcos 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The problem is not encoding the result.

The problem is that you need some support from the language to make it easy to deal with. Otherwise you'll get into go-style infinite if (err != null) handlers that will make your code unreadable.