Marvin Humphrey created CLOWNFISH-55:
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Summary: "MAYBE" sum types
Key: CLOWNFISH-55
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOWNFISH-55
Project: Apache Lucy-Clownfish
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Core
Reporter: Marvin Humphrey
By using "MAYBE" sum types which represent either a valid specific type or an
error, it becomes possible to encode error conditions into return types and
avoid throwing exceptions which escape the Clownfish runtime. These "MAYBE"
types can be mapped to exceptions for some hosts at the C/host border --
allowing us to accommodate both host languages where exceptions are problematic
(Go, embedded C) and languages where exceptions are idiomatic (Python, Perl,
Ruby).
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