This is what exceptions as flow control looks like: http://bit.ly/2uoLmd5
(The idea being that having the signature be `Option` would be painful, because you most commonly want to assume a result came back)
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I like leaving it up to the programmer, b/c in some contexts you'll get no results 50% of the time, some contexts 0.0001%
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Arguably `rescue nil` is the way to leave it up to the programmer in Ruby, too (Just less explicit in the API)
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