1/ My biggest issue with "force you to think" is that it's touted as a self-evident good even when applied to minor issues.
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3/3 very occasionally, can be worth it, but the onus is deeply on the person proposing a "force you to think" feature, not vice versa
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@wycats Is the cost of having to think about it greater than the cost of tracking down and fixing a bug, though? -
@cairnrefinery The cost is higher because it doesn't work. People get used to mindlessly writing patterns that don't reduce the bugs. -
@cairnrefinery I like solutions like Rust's error-handling, especially with .unwrap(), try!, and the proposed suffix-? -
@cairnrefinery this keeps the error clearly, but doesn't "force you to think" about it if you don't want.
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@wycats "Forces you to think about X" ≈ "Overrides your idea of what you think is important, to instead make you think about X"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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