On Monday, 7 February 2022 at 23:38:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Anytime you find yourself writing not-nohow, not-noway, etc.,
it's time to redesign the state of the variables. Try to
organize logic so ! is not necessary. I mean, try to organize
logic so ! is absent.
But sometimes that requires too much effort ;-)
e.g.
!debug { do this }
My brain decided this form of logic without me really thinking at
all.
Now I have to 'rethink', in order to find the correct form of
that logic that doesn't require the use of !
nodiscard is better than mustuse for the same reason.
Suppose I don't want to 'use it'. That should be allowed, as long
as I don't discard it. With mustuse, I'm being told I can't
discard it, and that i must use it.
