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0 pointscwalv2y ago0 comments

In my experience, the vast majority of the time the best (or only) way to correctly deal with the error is to propagate it up the stack. Making this optional (having to explicitly check return values) doesn't make it more likely to be done.

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preseinger2y ago

you say "optional", i say "explicit"

it's important that i see the `return` keyword in the source code

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0 pointscwalv2y ago0 comments

In my experience, the vast majority of the time the best (or only) way to correctly deal with the error is to propagate it up the stack. Making this optional (having to explicitly check return values) doesn't make it more likely to be done.

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preseinger2y ago

you say "optional", i say "explicit"

it's important that i see the `return` keyword in the source code

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse