• gex@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

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

    OpenFileOrDie()
    
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      10 months 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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      10 months ago

      It’s funnier when you try to SysCallAndDie() :-P

      (that’s a real thing in perl btw - I guess that function didn’t get the memo)