[sarahlwalks]

Well, maybe I’m not cool enough to appreciate it, and maybe I’m more accustomed to the style of other languages, but if I see more than a few ifs in a file, it feels like a code smell, and it feels like some refactoring might be good. But I’m hearing that this profusion of error checking “if“ statements is the go way.

To me, the ideal in a language is to assume that everything will go right, to enunciate the core intention of the program, function, etc., and to handle errors somewhere else, maybe below the main code or something like that. Mixing it all in right there with the code, even if we end up concluding that this turns out to be the best way to deal with things, seems visually confusing to me when reading the code.