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This is a discussion on Python's forums about adding something akin to a throws keyword in python.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not too familiar with C# (last used it like a decade ago), but I think the rules here would be pretty simple:

  • x? - if x is None or an Error, return from the function early, otherwise use the value and continue
  • x?.y - same as above, but with an attribute of x
  • x ?? y - instead of returning as in the first, use y as the default value

And maybe add an option to convert exceptions from a function to an Error value (maybe some_func?() to convert to error values? IDK, I haven't thought through that part as much).

Hopefully that's simple enough to be useful.

If I were proposing this, I'd limit it to optional chaining since that's far more annoying to me currently.