The case against helper packages named `utils`

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0100

I argued earlier that a function’s signature should never lie, and then that errors are values only if you treat them like values. Both posts circled the same question at different scales: what is this code for? This one closes the loop at the package level. The short version: if your package is named utils, you don’t have an answer.

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