• richieadler
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    1 year ago

    What happens in other languages you use when you try to access a non-existing key for a hash/map/dict?

    What language do you use that accessing an object attribute is the same that accessing a dict key?

    What knowledge do you have (or not) that KeyError is a mistery to you?

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      1 year ago

      What language do you use that accessing an object attribute is the same that accessing a dict key?

      Javascript / Typescript.

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        1 year ago

        Well, yeah, I thought about later. Lua does the same.

        The other questions are still valid, though.

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        Because that’s prone to errors. And the Zen of Python includes “explicit is better than implicit” and “Errors should never pass silently”. Languages that do otherwise create bad habits.