I saw this pattern in the code base of the GNOME project, Empathy, during my internship with them and was greatly impressed by this way of checking preconditions in every C function. From there on, I inculcated this strikingly clear way of stating assumptions and structuring functional code in my code style!
A few minutes ago, I received a notification of the following new medium blog post titled "Stop Using Else in Your Programs", in the "Better Programming" category and deemed it worth sharing:
Enjoy, and happy hacking!
