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The Rust Programming Language
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The Rust Programming Language

by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
552 pages
13h 50m
English
No Starch Press
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9ERROR HANDLING

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Rust’s commitment to reliability extends to error handling. Errors are a fact of life in software, so Rust has a number of features for handling situations in which something goes wrong. In many cases, Rust requires you to acknowledge the possibility of an error and take some action before your code will compile. This requirement makes your program more robust by ensuring that you’ll discover errors and handle them appropriately before you’ve deployed your code to production!

Rust groups errors into two major categories: recoverable and unrecoverable errors. For a recoverable error, such as a file not found error, it’s reasonable ...

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