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lclarkmichalek on May 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives

    $ curl http://golang.org/pkg/reflect/ | grep panic | wc -l
    79

peterwaller on May 11, 2015 [–]

> Do you have any examples of the standard library using panics to signal handle-able errors

Are those 79 handle-able errors, or are they programming mistakes?

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