Is there a good reason why `SendChannel.offer` throws instead of returning `false`? If so, why is th...

# coroutines

[Dico]

Is there a good reason why SendChannel.offer throws instead of returning false?
If so, why is there not an equivalent that never throws?

[Vsevolod Tolstopyatov [JB]]

Not really, initially it was done only to be consistent with send. We are thinking of changing that in #974

[Vsevolod Tolstopyatov [JB]]

If so, why is there not an equivalent that never throws?

Unfortunately, no, because we have a compiler problems related to inline classes. You can write your own extension with an optimistic isClosedForSend check + try { ... } catch { ... }

[Vsevolod Tolstopyatov [JB]]

also, please write your use-case in #974 for this behaviour. The more information we have, the better solution we can implement