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The ???? operator (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by snaggen to c/rust
 

I found this funny.

The context is as explained by @[email protected]

the issue is that you can't return from inside a closure, since the closure might be called later/elsewhere

and this post was the asnwer to the question by @[email protected]

you got me curious what the record for the longest ? operator chain on crates.io is

Original post: https://fosstodon.org/users/antonok/statuses/111134824451525448

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[–] sip 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

there was a comment about adding an ?! operator that would resolve any number of ? operators but I can't find it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Interrobang gang rise up!

[–] aloso 2 points 1 year ago

I can't remember ever needing more than two question marks (??), and even that is very rare in my experience.