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Result type

In functional programming, a result type is a monadic type holding a returned value or an error code. They provide an elegant way of handling errors, without resorting to exception handling; when a function that may fail returns a result type, the programmer is forced to consider success or failure paths, before getting access to the expected result…

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Result type

Nodes19
Edges18
Triples34
Avg. degree1.89
Density0.105263
Components1

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Result type → Additional, Because Java, Either, Erre, Error, Error Handling, Failure, For, HaskellEither, In, In Elm, In Haskell, In Java, In Kotlin, In OCaml, In Python, In Rust, In Scala, In Swift, Java
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Result type → monadic type holding a returned value or an error code

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result standard library type error expected defined rust return handling function exception success returns asstd natively may failure also java

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Result typeis amonadic type holding a returned value or an error code0.90text
returnsinstance ofbut is available from third party libraries0.80text
result.In Rustinstance ofbut is available from third party libraries0.80text
it is defined by the standard library asstdinstance ofbut is available from third party libraries0.80text
Result typerelated to ExamplesIn0.60section
Result typerelated to ExamplesIn Elm0.60section
Result typerelated to ExamplesOkv0.60section
Result typerelated to ExamplesErre0.60section
Result typerelated to ExamplesIn Haskell0.60section
Result typerelated to ExamplesLefta0.60section
Result typerelated to ExamplesRightb0.60section
Result typerelated to ExamplesIn Java0.60section

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