Is that not a big problem for production code? I think I'd prefer the
default case to be to crash the task than deal with a logic bug.

The existence of library functions that swallow errors makes reviewing code
and reasoning about failure cases a lot more difficult.



On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Kang Seonghoon <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think the following documentations describe this behavior pretty well.
>
>
> http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/std/io/trait.Buffer.html#method.lines
> http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/std/io/struct.Lines.html
>
> As the documentation puts, this behavior is intentional as it would be
> annoying for casual uses otherwise.
>
> 2014-02-18 17:16 GMT+09:00 Phil Dawes <[email protected]>:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I was cutting and pasting the following example from the std lib docs:
> >
> > http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/std/io/index.html
> > Iterate over the lines of a file
> >
> >     use std::io::BufferedReader;
> >     use std::io::File;
> >
> >     let path = Path::new("message.txt");
> >     let mut file = BufferedReader::new(File::open(&path));
> >     for line in file.lines() {
> >         print!("{}", line);
> >     }
> >
> > .. and I noticed that file.lines() swallows io errors. Given that this
> code
> > will probably be copied a bunch by people new to the language (including
> > me!) I was thinking it might be worth adding a comment to point this out
> or
> > changing to remove the source of bugs.
> >
> > (BTW, thanks for Rust - I'm enjoying following the language and hope to
> use
> > it as a safer replacement for C++ for latency sensitive code.)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
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>
>
>
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