Throw and catch

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So, most of all familiar with throw and catch thing in Ruby. It’s sometimes useful to be able to break away from a deep-leveled stack. And raising a error is quite expensive. Why isn’t it in the language yet?

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It’s bad practice. You should separate parts out into functions and use return if you want to do this. Or raise an exception.

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for a more objective reason: it’d probably be impossible to typecheck. It’s basically goto.

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