Still not as excellent as On Error Resume Next

Imagine the sheer idiocy genius required to add a language feature where, if an error occurred, the handling method is to just pretend that line of code never existed and continue onto the next line.

VBA is truly the language of savants.

PowerShell does that by default, and it’s my least favorite feature in my most used language.

$ErrorActionPreference = Stop

At the start of almost every script.

set -e

So catching errors and doing nothing? That exists in every language except maybe BASIC?

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Catching individual errors is fine. Having all errors be ignored by default is weird.

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Ignoring every exception, including divisions by zero, is something I’ve never seen outside of BASIC and shell scripting. Even C and assembly will shit themselves when you do some of the shit that ON ERROR RESUME NEXT will ignore.

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Very different. This means default ignore all errors and continue to the next line. You’d have to explicitly catch every line in most(all?) other languages.

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