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Meanining not clear in ch9.2 [The ? Operator can be used in functions that return Result] section #2912

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asher-gh opened this issue Oct 24, 2021 · 0 comments · Fixed by rust-lang/rust#90751
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Description of the problem:
In this para, it is referring if we want to use ? when calling other functions that return Result<T, E>, we can either change the return type of function definition(understandable) or use the match constructs seen earlier(in essence saying don't use ?).

When you’re writing code in a function that doesn’t return one of these types, and you want to use ? when you call other functions that return Result<T, E>, you have two choices to fix this problem. One technique is to change the return type of your function to be Result<T, E> if you have no restrictions preventing that. The other technique is to use a match or one of the Result<T, E> methods to handle the Result<T, E> in whatever way is appropriate.

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When you’re writing code in a function that doesn’t return one of these types and when you call other functions that return Result<T, E>, you have two choices to handle this. One technique is to change the return type of your function to be Result<T, E> if you have no restrictions preventing that. The other technique is to use a match or one of the Result<T, E> methods to handle the Result<T, E> in whatever way is appropriate.

@carols10cents carols10cents added this to the ch9 milestone Oct 27, 2021
matthiaskrgr added a commit to matthiaskrgr/rust that referenced this issue Nov 10, 2021
Update books

## nomicon

1 commits in 358e6a61d5f4f0496d0a81e70cdcd25d05307342..c6b4bf831e9a40aec34f53067d20634839a6778b
2021-10-20 11:23:12 -0700 to 2021-11-09 02:30:56 +0900
- Replace some use of variant with covariant (rust-lang/nomicon#322)

## book

11 commits in fd9299792852c9a368cb236748781852f75cdac6..5c5dbc5b196c9564422b3193264f3288d2a051ce
2021-10-22 21:59:46 -0400 to 2021-11-09 19:30:43 -0500
- Fix constants link.
- Fix updated anchor
- Propagate edits to chapter 2 back
- Edits to nostarch's chapter 3 edits
- ch 3 from nostarch
- Fix Cargo.toml snippet about custom derive macros
- Snapshot of chapter 9 for nostarch
- Create tmp/src for converting quotes, not sure why this broke but ok
- Update question mark to better explain where it can be used
- Clarify sentence about Results in functions that don't return Result. Fixes rust-lang/book#2912.
- Merge pull request rust-lang/book#2913 from covariant/patch-1

## rust-by-example

2 commits in 27f1ff5e440ef78828b68ab882b98e1b10d9af32..e9d45342d7a6c1def4731f1782d87ea317ba30c3
2021-10-13 08:04:40 -0300 to 2021-11-02 13:33:03 -0500
- Enums: Linked-List Needs Re-Wording (rust-lang/rust-by-example#1469)
- fix: Use the point as top left corner for `square` (rust-lang/rust-by-example#1471)

## rustc-dev-guide

13 commits in b06008731af0f7d07cd0614e820c8276dfed1c18..196ef69aa68f2cef44f37566ee7db37daf00301b
2021-10-21 15:13:09 -0500 to 2021-11-07 07:48:47 -0600
- Fix typo: [upv.rs_mentioned] -&gt; [upvars_mentioned]
- Add note to emphasize replacing TARGET_TRIPLE (rust-lang/rustc-dev-guide#1250)
- Remove some legacy test suites.
- tiny capitalization fix
- Fix date
- Update some date-check comments
- Ensure date-check cron job is using latest stable Rust
- enhance subtree docs, link to clippy docs
- Edit introduction to bootstrapping
- Some minor adjustments to the diagnostic documentation
- Edit "About this guide" for semantic line feeds
- Fix `rustc_mir` related links (rust-lang/rustc-dev-guide#1228)
- Add documentation for LLVM CFI support

## edition-guide

3 commits in 7c0088ca744d293a5f4b1e2ac378e7c23d30fe55..27f4a84d3852e9416cae5861254fa53a825c56bd
2021-10-05 13:28:05 +0200 to 2021-11-08 10:13:20 -0500
- Add a missing period (rust-lang/edition-guide#271)
- Fix syntax error in code example (rust-lang/edition-guide#270)
- Fixed an example error of prelude.md (rust-lang/edition-guide#269)
matthiaskrgr added a commit to matthiaskrgr/rust that referenced this issue Nov 10, 2021
Update books

## nomicon

1 commits in 358e6a61d5f4f0496d0a81e70cdcd25d05307342..c6b4bf831e9a40aec34f53067d20634839a6778b
2021-10-20 11:23:12 -0700 to 2021-11-09 02:30:56 +0900
- Replace some use of variant with covariant (rust-lang/nomicon#322)

## book

11 commits in fd9299792852c9a368cb236748781852f75cdac6..5c5dbc5b196c9564422b3193264f3288d2a051ce
2021-10-22 21:59:46 -0400 to 2021-11-09 19:30:43 -0500
- Fix constants link.
- Fix updated anchor
- Propagate edits to chapter 2 back
- Edits to nostarch's chapter 3 edits
- ch 3 from nostarch
- Fix Cargo.toml snippet about custom derive macros
- Snapshot of chapter 9 for nostarch
- Create tmp/src for converting quotes, not sure why this broke but ok
- Update question mark to better explain where it can be used
- Clarify sentence about Results in functions that don't return Result. Fixes rust-lang/book#2912.
- Merge pull request rust-lang/book#2913 from covariant/patch-1

## rust-by-example

2 commits in 27f1ff5e440ef78828b68ab882b98e1b10d9af32..e9d45342d7a6c1def4731f1782d87ea317ba30c3
2021-10-13 08:04:40 -0300 to 2021-11-02 13:33:03 -0500
- Enums: Linked-List Needs Re-Wording (rust-lang/rust-by-example#1469)
- fix: Use the point as top left corner for `square` (rust-lang/rust-by-example#1471)

## rustc-dev-guide

13 commits in b06008731af0f7d07cd0614e820c8276dfed1c18..196ef69aa68f2cef44f37566ee7db37daf00301b
2021-10-21 15:13:09 -0500 to 2021-11-07 07:48:47 -0600
- Fix typo: [upv.rs_mentioned] -&gt; [upvars_mentioned]
- Add note to emphasize replacing TARGET_TRIPLE (rust-lang/rustc-dev-guide#1250)
- Remove some legacy test suites.
- tiny capitalization fix
- Fix date
- Update some date-check comments
- Ensure date-check cron job is using latest stable Rust
- enhance subtree docs, link to clippy docs
- Edit introduction to bootstrapping
- Some minor adjustments to the diagnostic documentation
- Edit "About this guide" for semantic line feeds
- Fix `rustc_mir` related links (rust-lang/rustc-dev-guide#1228)
- Add documentation for LLVM CFI support

## edition-guide

3 commits in 7c0088ca744d293a5f4b1e2ac378e7c23d30fe55..27f4a84d3852e9416cae5861254fa53a825c56bd
2021-10-05 13:28:05 +0200 to 2021-11-08 10:13:20 -0500
- Add a missing period (rust-lang/edition-guide#271)
- Fix syntax error in code example (rust-lang/edition-guide#270)
- Fixed an example error of prelude.md (rust-lang/edition-guide#269)
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