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I'm pretty sure I have exactly what you are talking about. error handeling was one of the things that I wanted to get right with jaithon, and I made my system similar to like rust.

error[E0301]: cannot assign to immutable binding `x` --> examples/demo.jai:7:5 | 5 | let x = 1 | - `x` declared immutable here ... 7 | x = 2 | ^^^^^ assignment to immutable binding | help: change the declaration to `var x = 1`

^^ That was shown from the Readme, more extensive examples are in documentation!

Is this what you were refering to or something else, I completely agree that erorr handeling is very important.

I think jyx was talking about the throw/try/catch mechanism[0] used for error handling, in contrast to error handling in e.g. Rust, where the idiomatic way of handling an error is to return a Result enum, containing either a success value or an error type. The latter allows callers to know that a function can error, and what kind of error it can return. Exception-based error handling, on the other hand, means you cannot tell by way of the type system whether or what errors a function can throw.

[0]: https://github.com/abhiramasonny/jaithon/blob/main/LANGUAGE....

Ah yeah that makes more sense. Will look into this

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