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MuIL does not support function overloading.
### Exceptions
Most languages we envision supporting have exception-based error models (with the sole exception of Go). As a result,
MuIL supports exceptions. At the moment, there are no throws annotations of any kind; if Go or Java become interesting
MetaMu languages to support down the road, we may wish to add optional throws annotations to drive proxy generation,
including the possibility of flowing return and exception types to Go and Java, respectively.
### Threading/Async/Await
There is no multithreading in MuIL. And there is no I/O. As a result, there are neither multithreading facilities nor
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## Open Questions
Exceptions: fail-fast
Numeric types (long, int, etc)
Intrinsics: do they appear in MuIL? Or just in MuGL?