pendantic terminology question
when a compiler refuses to compile source code due to an error in that code, is it appurropurriate to describe this behavior as the compiler “throwing”?
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@aescling throwing is a runtime concept
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@wallhackio what do you mean by this response?
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@aescling an error/exception is thrown at runtime. you cant throw an error during compilation its a non-sequitor
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@wallhackio compilers don’t have runtimes?
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@aescling this specific use case does not guarantee that an exception is thrown by the compiler runtime. (it could be how the compiler is chosen to run but who knows? what if the compiler is written in a language without exceptions?) it is a compiler refusing to compile because the code is errant. that is not an exception that is just program behavior
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@wallhackio what if the implementation throws runtime exceptions as the most convenient way of short-circuiting on discovering an error?
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@aescling @aescling yeah they can but you cant guarantee that a compiler deciding not to compile code is an exception. thats an implementation detail/design choice