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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2/ But empirically, people can only keep a handful of things in their mind, so every "forces you to think" is in fact a heavy cost.
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@cairnrefinery The cost is higher because it doesn't work. People get used to mindlessly writing patterns that don't reduce the bugs.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@cairnrefinery I like solutions like Rust's error-handling, especially with .unwrap(), try!, and the proposed suffix-?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@cairnrefinery this keeps the error clearly, but doesn't "force you to think" about it if you don't want.
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