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		et1337 on July 19, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Memory management in C programs (2014) Completely agree, and it's surprising to see this in Nethack because game programmers almost unanimously shun exceptions. In games, you have a small number of functions that can tolerate failure, probably relating to IO. Everything else instantly explodes.

Narishma on July 19, 2016 | [–]

Games that don't use exceptions tend to do so because of performance concerns. Nethack is a turn-based game, so performance isn't as relevant here.

AbacusAvenger on July 19, 2016 | [–]

Bear in mind this is Nethack4 which is a fork of Nethack.

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