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Using named return variables to capture panics in Go

Sometimes you can't help but call a function that might panic. Rather than letting it blow up your code, we learn how to use a deferred function and named return variables in order to capture the result as a standard Go error.

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Jon is a co-founder of EasyPost, a shipping API that many fortune 500 companies use to power their shipping infrastructure, and prior to founding EasyPost he worked at google as a software engineer.

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