Just want to voice my love for `impure`! I'm writi...

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[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

Just want to voice my love for impure! I'm writing an IntelliJ plugin, and impure is a perfect fit for the Visitor pattern.

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

Tell me this isn't readable!

override fun visitSimpleNameExpression(expression: KtSimpleNameExpression) = impure {
  super.visitSimpleNameExpression(expression)

  ensure(expression.parent !is KtThisExpression && expression.parent !is KtSuperExpression && expression !is KtLabelReferenceExpression)
  analyze(expression) {
    val reference = expression.mainReference.resolveToSymbol()
    ensure(reference is KaAnnotated)
    val annotation = reference.annotations[PRETTY].singleOrNull().bind()
    val name = annotation.findConstantArgument(PRETTY_NAME)
    ensure(name is String)

    add(PrettyFoldingDescriptor(expression, name))
  }
}

[CLOVIS]

not easy finding its documentation laugh cry face palm

[CLOVIS]

is it the same as

nullable {
    ignoreErrors {

    }
}

?

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

I'm pretty sure impure was a suggestion by you lol!
It's like nullable but always returns Unit, so both the error side and success side are Unit

[CLOVIS]

was it 😅

[CLOVIS]

oh so it just shortcircuits, right?

[CLOVIS]

I see, yeah, could've been me 🤣

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

Yeah, so it lets me short circuit out of the visitor method early, while getting smartcasts and stuff. I could just use return a whole bunch of times, but ensure and bind are cleaner

[CLOVIS]

Yeah that definitely sounds like me, I completely forgot it got merged