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The corollary of "no error handling" is "caller must be perfect", it is the opposite to defensive coding. I can see the appeal, it puts minimal constraints on the caller, in a sense making the library functions as flexible as possible, but exposing an API so easy to misuse seems reckless, even if the API is elegant in its own way.



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