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The point being that's how you've decided to deal with the error, by ignoring it.

• Ukv 5mo ago
  Silently ignoring errors by leaving out some boilerplate doesn't really seem like an active/forced decision, or a selling point over the languages it disparages ("[...] hellscape doesn't make errors disappear, it just hides them"). Then that the correct path is the one of more resistance seems poor design, in my surface-level opinion.
  • 4ndrewl 5mo ago
    It is a decision though, and one you have to consciously make for each and every occurrence. You can't just hope some catch block will eventually handle it...
    • Ukv 5mo ago
      I may be missing something, but I don't see how just forgetting to handle/propagate the error (and, say, causing data corruption by continuing with whatever empty/partial return value the function happens to give) would be a conscious decision. Even when it is intentional, like writing some quick/dirty code and planning on handling errors properly later, I'd imagine it's difficult to grep for instances of unchecked errors in the way you can with `.unwrap()` - though tooling should help.