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bigfishrunningtoday at 1:45 PM1 replyview on HN

I think that's exactly what's being asked for here (via the "panic effect" that the article refers to)

although, I think i'd prefer a "doesn't panic" effect just to keep backwards compatibility (allowing functions to panic by default)


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3836293648today at 2:37 PM

Or effect aliases. But given that it's strictly a syntactic transformation it seems like make the wrong default today, fix it in the next edition. (Editions come with tools to update syntax changes)