[erlang-questions] exception when no match found

[Tiago Cury]

I think that erlang would just bypass the entire case..of instead of throw an exception when no match found. It's can economize more lines of code.

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[Fred Hebert]

Well I think it shouldn't.

Crashes can economize me headaches by being very loud things instead of
silent buggers that I wonder why the hell they don't get to run and
stuff after them fails.

[Loïc Hoguin]

(Sorry, failed to Reply All.)

A case is an expression, it returns a value. You can't have implicit
clauses because the compiler can't guess what this value should be.

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Loïc Hoguin
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