The original question--the one I answered--was about a small block of user code and asked nothing about http or unexpected panics.
The spirit of panic/recover, and with defer, includes in its use "local" panic, a kind of successor to setjump/longjump, that unwinds the stack, calls defers, and is caught and managed near some local top. As in the blog post I excerpted: https://blog.golang.org/defer-panic-and-recover On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 2:22 PM robert engels <reng...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > I agree, but in that case the ‘panic’ is as you say recognized (and in > this particular case used to unwind from a potentially very deep call), but > is then still returned as an error. > > The previous commentor referred to catching “panics" in a top-level http > request processor and continuing to service requests - which is far > different in my opinion. > > > On Feb 9, 2019, at 4:08 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 7:48 PM Robert Engels <reng...@ix.netcom.com> > wrote: > >> > >> The way Go is designed a panic must terminate the application. Anything > else is so indeterminate to be unusable. > > > > I think one can reasonably argue that an unrecognized panic should > > terminate the application. > > > > But there is nothing wrong with recovering and continuing from a > > recognized panic. For example, the call to recover in > > encoding/json.encodeState.marshal is fine > > (https://golang.org/src/encoding/json/encode.go#L295). > > > > Ian > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "golang-nuts" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- *Michael T. jonesmichael.jo...@gmail.com <michael.jo...@gmail.com>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
