PHP has the always wonderful (and perfectly functional) syntax of

logUserIn() or die();

Personally, I like to call catched exception variables up, so for a rethrow I can throw up;.

I mean, it makes sense to call ComplainToErrorAndExit just ‘die’, no?

One of the modules in a project I’m working on is called VulkanOrDie which always makes me crack up when I see it in the compilation messages.

It’s funnier when you try to SysCallAndDie() :-P

(that’s a real thing in perl btw - I guess that function didn’t get the memo)

Now what about GZDoom’s GoAwayAndDie();?

do {
  /* something */
} do hast {
  /* something */
} do hast mich {
  /* something */
}

i mean, “unless” tends to be the usual term for an “if not” keyword in languages that implement such a thing

Yeah, to be clear, I don’t like it, I don’t like it one bit:-P.

Gulp…

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Also, just for fun, the prequel:

At one of my first jobs, I was tasked to rewrite a bunch of legacy Perl scripts in Python and the unless lines always made me trip up. I don’t know why but it really messed with my mental flow when reading Perl code

Using a standalone ‘else’ would tickle my brain in the same nice way that being able to declare a variable inside an ‘if’ statement as if it were a ‘for’ loop (which you can do in modern C++) does.

Let’s just scrap every language except various forms of BASIC.

Ruby was designed to evoke joy and they absolutely succeeded. Usually, programming is mostly a means to an end to me. But using Ruby just feels so amazing, it’s almost impossible to even describe to somebody who has never used it before.