----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Goetz" <brian.go...@oracle.com> > To: "Dan Heidinga" <heidi...@redhat.com> > Cc: "amber-spec-experts" <amber-spec-experts@openjdk.java.net> > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 8:26:53 PM > Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Remainder in pattern matching
[...] > > One thing wrapping gains is that it gives us a place to centralize > "something failed in pattern matching", which includes exhaustiveness > failures as well as failures of invariants which PM assumes (e.g., dtors > don't throw.) but such centralization is a bad practice, that the reason why catch(Exception) is considered as a bad practice. BTW, i hope that with loom people will use virtual threads (they are cheap) to manage scenarios where you want to discard a computation if something fails, like in Erlang. Rémi
