Frequent use of these patterns is a good smell test that one should reconsider design choices. Are there times when usage is justified? Yes. Should it be the fi

Frequent use of these patterns is a good smell test that one should reconsider design choices. Are there times when usage is justified? Yes. Should it be the first / default mechanism? No. Learn the rules first, and then it will be more clear when you should break them. I have no problem with the general rule nor a built-in mechanism for breaking them. Simple example: if I ever have a row lock I wrap the corresponding block in recover to ensure that I never have a deadlock. But I certainly don’t wrap every function in recover...