I’ve written both professionally and personally found Python makes it harder to see the early out, which makes it less valuable/explicit as a guard.
The Ruby pattern is clear up front on what it is rather than being a bag of conditions that you have to get to the end of to discover what they trigger.
> Yeah I don't get why you would deliberately make the flow control confusing and backwards like that.
I like to use this as function guards, where the first lines in the body of a function can be:
example: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/f95c0b7e96eb36bc3efc0c5b...