The monadic/Result pattern only works if your language has a lot of syntactic sugar for it (for example to mix functions that can return errors with ones that c

The monadic/Result pattern only works if your language has a lot of syntactic sugar for it (for example to mix functions that can return errors with ones that can't you need some kind of 'bind'), but when you're used to it and don't try and play too many clever tricks on the side (not _everything_ has to be a monad) then it can be very readable and easy to work with.