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> But, I'm still very new to Zig, so perhaps my instincts on that are wrong. :-)

Maybe you're right too! Just speaking for myself here, but as a programmer and "man with a hammer", I sometimes like to think that instincts might just be our mental machine learning model, where it can be really well trained and give the right black box answer, albeit not with the explanatory backstory or rationale, but worth trusting nevertheless.

I'm also new to Zig, and there are ways that a pointer input arg as error payload could go wrong. I'm following the proposal issue, and it will be interesting to see which way it goes.

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I think you're spot on with your description of instincts. Which of course means sometimes they can lead us wrong, especially if we're applying them to domains very different from those they were trained on.