Stream: beginners

Topic: Zig-style error handling?

Unshipped9094 (Dec 24 2025 at 21:43):

I vaguely recall hearing/seeing that the new syntax for Roc was going to adopt something similar to the way Zig does error handling. Am I totally mis-remembering or is there anything someone could point me to? Mostly just curious since I've been learning Zig and finding it pretty reasonable.

Unshipped9094 (Dec 24 2025 at 21:49):

Actually, just skimmed through the advent of code doc and think I found it
https://gist.github.com/rtfeldman/f46bcbfe5132d62c4095dfa687bb9aa4#the--postfix-operator

increment_first = |strings| {
    first_str = strings.first()?
    first_num = I64.from_str(first_str)?

    Ok(first_num + 1)
}

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