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[–] [email protected] 202 points 1 year ago (19 children)

I propose a new, more threatening kind of control flow.

do {
  /* something */
} or else {
  /* you don't want to find out */
}
[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Some C++ style guides suggest the following naming convention for functions that crash on any error

OpenFileOrDie()
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

One of the modules in a project I'm working on is called VulkanOrDie which always makes me crack up when I see it in the compilation messages.

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