surely 'throw a npe' means something very similar to something that Go does
It's a panic in Go, not an exception. In practice that's usually a whole process crash. You can catch panics and kinda use them like exceptions, but it's not conventional.
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It's a panic in Go, not an exception. In practice that's usually a whole process crash. You can catch panics and kinda use them like exceptions, but it's not conventional.