I don’t think you can ever argue that a small (and only non-runtime exception, right?) signature at the top of the function makes it easy to see what lines thro

I don’t think you can ever argue that a small (and only non-runtime exception, right?) signature at the top of the function makes it easy to see what lines throw. Even if a function is small, each and every line could be the thrower and not allow the rest to execute.