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156 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 09 Jul 25 04:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.244s | source
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seabass ◴[09 Jul 25 04:49 UTC] No.44506423[source]▶
I love this sort of cs history. I’m also curious—why do we “throw” an error or “raise” an exception? Why did the for loop use “for” instead of, say, “loop”?
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1. baq ◴[09 Jul 25 05:43 UTC] No.44506657[source]▶
You throw something catchable and if you fail to catch it it’ll break. Unless it’s a steel ball.

You raise flags or issues, which are good descriptions of an exception.