# Is there a better way to do error handling on Julia than try/catch?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [March 10, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-better-way-to-do-error-handling-on-julia-than-try-catch/21716 "2019-03-10T20:43:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 6:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-better-way-to-do-error-handling-on-julia-than-try-catch/21716/6 "2019-03-11T06:26:52Z")

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It is _one_ approach to error handling, which is useful in some situations, less so in others. As @rdeits said, Julia is flexible enough to allow you to experiment with other approaches. Many functions in `Base` and in packages have a form that uses a type union instead of throwing an error, eg `Base.tryparse`, you can of course follow this pattern with your own functions.

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