Thank you mister Rader, this was what I needed. I think I now have 
intuition what this text want to say.

Best regards
Kamil

piątek, 29 września 2023 o 23:58:39 UTC+2 Kurtis Rader napisał(a):

> An ordinary error is one that can be expected to occur. For example, 
> opening a file may fail because the file does not exist or the process 
> doesn't have permission to open it. An exceptional error is one that is not 
> expected to occur and often indicates the state of the program is invalid. 
> For example, a data structure that contains pointers that should never be 
> nil. If a nil pointer is found that means the structure is corrupted. 
> Probably due to a programming bug. Exceptional errors are those which may 
> make it unsafe to continue execution. In which case calling panic() may be 
> the only sensible course of action.
>
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 2:38 PM Kamil Ziemian <kziem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In Go FAQ we read "We believe that coupling exceptions to a control 
>> structure, as in the try-catch-finally idiom, results in convoluted 
>> code. It also tends to encourage programmers to label too many ordinary 
>> errors, such as failing to open a file, as exceptional.", " Go also has a 
>> couple of built-in functions to signal and recover from truly exceptional 
>> conditions.".
>>
>> Can you explain to me in general terms what is a ordinary and exceptional 
>> error? I'm just a hobbist programer and I never think about errors in that 
>> way.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Kamil
>>
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