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That's just implementation details. You can absolutely do Result types with unwinding (and som auto inserted catches) and you can absolutely do exceptions with chained early returns.

The relevant improvement new languages (Rust, Zig, Swift?) bring over old is making it explicit at the callsite what actions throw and how they're composed



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