We’ve encountered several ways of designing functions in a way that allows them to fail for some reason, without stopping the program, or making it otherwise risky or awkward to use the function. We introduced the error_t type which is very flexible. It can be used to provide some information to the caller, helping them understand what went wrong and how it can be fixed. By allowing errors to be wrapped inside others, we can create chains of errors that describe the problem at various abstr...
