If we could add Monads to C to stop having to do that, we would. This would require so much revamping of the type system that it wouldn’t be C anymore, in a non

If we could add Monads to C to stop having to do that, we would. This would require so much revamping of the type system that it wouldn’t be C anymore, in a non-compatible way. I’ve been writing C for at least 25 years, I am extremely comfortable with it and know most of its nooks and crannies, and I do it daily as my job. God I wish it had Monads just enough to stop cluttering my code with error checking boilerplate. There are many things in computing and everywhere else that we have done for decades, before we got far along enough to be able to stop.