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#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Challenge of Exceptions in Code

The way that Mojo works is that the call to that function, which happens in the accept block, calls a function. And then instead of returning nothing, it actually returns something between nothing and an error. So when you get to the call, you say, okay, cool, I call the function. Hey, I know locally I'm in a try block, right? And so I call thefunction and then I check to see what it returns. Aha, if it's that error thing, jump to the accept block.

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