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		Gankro on Nov 10, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing Rust 1.13 Unwinding is an implementation of exceptions. You can implement them as returns, or, in the case of Swift, passing in a pointer for the Error type.

steveklabnik on Nov 10, 2016 [–]

Okay that's fair. I usually equate them because every language I've ever used has implemented them with unwinding.

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