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If the called function only returns a specific type, how is there a need to type check the returning value?


Thrown errors are always of type unknown, so you have to assert them back into a known type.

Or throw caution to the wind and arbitrarily cast them to a type of your choosing, but that never ends well. A robust and maintainable system can’t reasonably do that.




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