What language are you using that will automatically infer this at compilation time?(*)
If I understand properly what you are suggesting, to make it work with my goto language (OCaml), I believe that I would have to make every function return a polymorphic variant for the error (aka technicaly equivalent to mandatory try blocks and boxed return types). The only time I had to deal with a library doing that it was not pleasant but it was too long ago for me to remember the details, probably related to complex compilation error messages.
If I understand properly what you are suggesting, to make it work with my goto language (OCaml), I believe that I would have to make every function return a polymorphic variant for the error (aka technicaly equivalent to mandatory try blocks and boxed return types). The only time I had to deal with a library doing that it was not pleasant but it was too long ago for me to remember the details, probably related to complex compilation error messages.
(*) looking at your github, I guess Scala?