Marcus Müller on Nostr: I know that feeling. I think "do the thing the user *probably* wanted is in case of ...

I know that feeling. I think "do the thing the user *probably* wanted is in case of error" comes into fashion periodically (specifically, everytime a field discovers a new way of specifying APIs), and afterwards everybody curses and uses the `xyz_fail_if_you_would_need_to_guess` variant of functions. It's certainly present in the earlier code in various libcs (no shame on the developers there! They needed to write *useful* software), it's very much present in how early web-era…