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The ???? operator (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never though about chaining ?! This is hilarious and I need to use it somewhere now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah i didnt realize you could do that either lmao.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It make total sense, I just never ran into a Result(Result(Result(T, E), E), E) situation

Edit: Lemmy is so scared of cross site scripting, they simply remove all less than and greater than signs, lmao

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 1 year ago

And it replaces ampersands.