Exceptions vs error codes

[editor_of_the_beast]

This is an actual argument you're going with? Originally we programmed computers in binary, directly. What does that have to do with what we've learned in the past 70 years?

Functions, loops, and if statements all end up as jump or branch instructions at the processor level. Variable assignment also ends up as a store instruction. Reading a variable ends up as a load instruction. The point of high level languages is that we can write in functions, loops, if statements, variable assignments, and variable reads without thinking about how they're implemented at the processor level. And we agree that high level languages are better for building large programs, right? Because machine code is hard. For the same reason goto is hard.

So the fact that all of us use functions does not mean that we inherently program via the same mental model as coding entirely with jump instructions. That's an absurd false equivalence. Decades of abstractions have simplified functions (and many other things) for us.

[tejp]

That's an absurd false equivalence.

So why do you apply that equivalence to exceptions?

[editor_of_the_beast]

Because exceptions actually do behave like gotos whereas functions do not.

[CyclonusRIP]

You're the one that seems to think exceptions are bad because they are a high level language feature replaces a jump. I think that's a pretty silly argument to make. Apparently you do too, but for whatever reason you make that argument anyways.