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Re:Errors in Go: From denial to acceptance by groestl on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @02:40AM (#18540312)
> and the program would remain in an invalid state.

But this is only ever possible if the program moved to an invalid state in the first place. Granted, sometimes there is no way around that, but usually it can and should be avoided.

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Re:Errors in Go: From denial to acceptance by jstimpfle on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @06:05AM (#18541309)
For the programs I write, I'm sure the majority of function invocations do only a partial transformation (i.e., result in an invalid state).
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