geany/geany — comment on commit f31a84869d45980a7ecb27f5a4d6c3588c547eee
File: src/document.c line 2372
By codebrainz:

I disagree that it makes it harder to read. It tells the reader "if this happens, something is wrong" explicitly. It seems the Geany team doesn't agree on this point, as the reason I used it was because I've seen it in the code already (~ 80 times).