A year ago or so, I have noticed that the phrase "forces the programmer to think about" is reliably correlated with bad ideas.
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@seppo0010 if that was the case, try! and unwrap (and the proposed suffix ?) wouldn't exist1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@seppo0010 "allows you to think about" is awesome. "forces you to think about" is a design antipattern (both langs and DSLs)1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
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@seppo0010 I think Matz did a good job explaining the difference here: http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/slides/oscon2003/ …
6:11 AM - 26 Oct 2015
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