@wallhackio compilers don’t have runtimes?

@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

@wallhackio what if the implementation throws runtime exceptions as the most convenient way of short-circuiting on discovering an error?

@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

@wallhackio (which is to say, you think that? because, pedantically speaking, compilers have runtimes, and can absol-utely throw exceptions during that runtime)