Fair point. It is a bit odd. IIUC the low/reverse-precedence operators came from Perl, and whether or not to use them is just a stylistic choice. It's clear wha

Fair point. It is a bit odd. IIUC the low/reverse-precedence operators came from Perl, and whether or not to use them is just a stylistic choice. It's clear what this means: > raise "ooops" unless do_something() But even so, it reads a bit backwards. Some codebases do this instead: > do_something() or raise "oops" That's just repeating one of the examples in the article, but it jumps out to me as the one I've seen most often.