洪民憙 (Hong Minhee): @yurume Java's checked exceptions were indeed too verbose, and the lack of type aliases (like typedef) made working with multiple exception types cumbersome. I'm not super familiar with Zig's error handling approach, but I'll definitely look into it—sounds like it might offer some interesting patterns that could have improved Java's implementation.

3/21/2025, 6:57:15 AM

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@hongminhee洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) Totally agreed. The main problem with the original incarnation of Java's checked exceptions was that it was quite verbose and didn't give an easy way to compress a set of error types (because there is no typedef or such in Java). Zig-style syntax could be easily adapted to checked exceptions for the reasonable convenience.

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3/21/2025, 8:36:11 AM

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@yurume유루메 Yurume Java's checked exceptions were indeed too verbose, and the lack of type aliases (like typedef) made working with multiple exception types cumbersome. I'm not super familiar with Zig's error handling approach, but I'll definitely look into it—sounds like it might offer some interesting patterns that could have improved Java's implementation.

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