Articles with the tag "panic/recover"

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 Calhoun

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Jon Calhoun is a full stack web developer who also teaches about Go, web development, algorithms, and anything programming related. He also consults for other companies who have development needs. (If you need some development work done, get in touch!)

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