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Understanding Error Handling Practices in Rust

By

emschwartz

11mo ago· 4 min readenNews

Summary

The article discusses the standard practice of error handling in Rust, emphasizing the use of error enums to cover all possible error cases in a module or crate. It highlights the manual effort required to distinguish applicable error variants based on function documentation.

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The current standard for error handling, when writing a crate, is to define one error enum per module, or one for the whole crate that covers all error cases that the module or crate can possibly produce.
If you match on this error enum, you will have to manually distinguish which of those variants are not applicable in your current scope, based on the documentation of the function (and who reads that).
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