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The Go Programming Language
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The Go Programming Language

by Alan A. A. Donovan, Brian W. Kernighan
October 2015
Beginner to intermediate
400 pages
14h 44m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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5.10 Recover

Giving up is usually the right response to a panic, but not always. It might be possible to recover in some way, or at least clean up the mess before quitting. For example, a web server that encounters an unexpected problem could close the connection rather than leave the client hanging, and during development, it might report the error to the client too.

If the built-in recover function is called within a deferred function and the function containing the defer statement is panicking, recover ends the current state of panic and returns the panic value. The function that was panicking does not continue where it left off but returns normally. If recover is called at any other time, it has no effect and returns nil.

To illustrate, ...

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