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Because it's basically VB6



Vb6 at least had "on error goto".


Vba has "on error goto".


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Huh. I distinctly remember working with VBA-based systems like 20 years ago where that was a massive difference - like, I'd been writing code on mid-'90s VB4 and it had "on error goto" but VBA didn't like 10 years later. But maybe it was specific to one or two VBA-based platforms.

Either way, it was super infuriating since it meant the only non-catastrophic error-handling possible was "on error goto next" and then manually checking error codes.




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