I found this funny.

The context is as explained by @laund@hachyderm.io

the issue is that you can’t return from inside a closure, since the closure might be called later/elsewhere

and this post was the asnwer to the question by @antonok@fosstodon.org

you got me curious what the record for the longest ? operator chain on crates.io is

Original post: https://fosstodon.org/users/antonok/statuses/111134824451525448

  • Aloso
    7•9 months ago

    If all you do in the Err(e) => ... match arm is returning the error, then you absolutely should use the ? operator instead.

    If the match arm also converts the error type into another error type, implement the From trait for the conversion, then you can use ? as well.

    If you want to add more information to the error, you can use .map_err(...)?. Or, if you’re using the anyhow crate, .with_context(...)?.

    • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      3•9 months ago

      You can also do map_err, which is a bit cleaner while keeping the mapping obvious. If you really need to do some logic on error, extracting that to the calling function is often better.