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by josefx 1776 days ago
> plain old return error codes and the related modern status codes are the way to go

Why yes I just love to get a "Error one of the billion files this application tried to load wasn't available ErrorCode: ERR_MISSING_FILE_FUCK_WHO_KNOWS_WHICH". What I like about exceptions is that they make information that can't be encoded in a 32 bit integer value available to top level error handlers.