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Re:Avoid Else, Return Early (2013) by vpribish on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:27AM (#16679584)
Wow, you captured so many things I saw in my own education. let me add one:

Same way you learn to let some code fail instead of handling every exception.

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Re:Avoid Else, Return Early (2013) by your-nanny on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:03PM (#16684537)
In my case, half the time I don't know how to handle the exception usefully, and the other half of the time hard failure is the better option. But that's mostly for data analysis.
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