Comment by exasperaited
5 hours ago
"Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose."
Elmore Leonard, on writing. But he might as well have been talking about the cut operator.
At uni I had assignments where we were simply not allowed to use it.
I used to use a cut operator about every 2 to 4 rules. If you are constantly using it as error handling, I would agree you are using it too often. If you are using it to turn sets into scalars or cells, then you are using it correctly. It just makes the code really hard to reason about and maintain.