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I've always found C++'s "trend" of handling normal or non-exceptional system errors with exceptions lackluster (and I'm being charitable). Overall trimming things down to (basically) passing around a couple integers and telling the user to check their manual is much better, much less error prone, and much more efficient and deterministic.

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 weeks ago

First: it's not new, it's been around since C++03.

Second... it's not even that great. It's more characters to type and you have to deal with stds and colons. (void) is a classic and works everywhere.

But hey, at least it's not static_cast<void>(...).