What are Guard Clauses?

[@bloopers2967]

Wow, Your way of explanation is soo good. It's super simple to understand by your videos. I watched around 4-5 before yours and didn't understand this topic but you're the man♥️

[@Ardalis]

Glad it helped!

[@Chapali9a]

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[@Ardalis]

Glad you liked it!

[@caseyspaulding]

Great explanation. Thanks just learning this pattern

[@Ardalis]

You are welcome!

[@thomasroustio8608]

Great explanation and example, thank you.

[@Ardalis]

You are welcome!

[@erhanalankus]

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[@Ardalis]

Thanks! Been growing it out for about 15 months. It's still in that annoying stage where it wants to keep getting in my face, so you'll see me wearing hats a lot, too :)

[@allannielsen4752]

i would never use guard clauses for validation. that said, if i'm guarding my class from invalid coding then i prefer Debug.Assert so i can catch it during my test phase. throwing exceptions should only be for exceptions, otherwise there are better solutions.

[@Ardalis]

Also reasonable approaches. I prefer exceptions because they will definitely stop invalid code paths from executing. But you're correct this should not be used for (first line) validation.

[@camrws]

tired of the pretty people errors getting thru 🙄

[@Ardalis]

totally...