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Samuel Yanez
27,790 PointsWhy Swift functions don't specify the type of errors they throw?
After watching the videos on Swift Error Handling, I'm wondering why Swift functions don't specify the type of errors they throw? Instead, we need to figure out what different kinds of errors can occur in the trying functions using different catching statements.
Wouldn't it be better just to specify the type of error in the function declaration, similar to what Java and other languages do?
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Michael Hulet
47,913 PointsI love Swift, but in my opinion, this is a deficiency of the language. That being said, it was a deliberate design decision. You can read about the rationale behind it on its discussion/proposal page in the Swift repository