Rust: Result vs Option vs expect — Pick Wrong, Pay at 3 AM
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Gaurav Wankhede - TECHVERSE
23 days ago
23 days ago
Rust: Result vs Option vs expect — Result, Option, or expect? Picking the wrong one will page you at three in the morning. Here is the rule. If an operation can fail, return Result and bubble the error up with question mark. Simple. If a value might just not exist, use Option. Absence is not an error. It is expected.
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