Project Error Handling: Action Items

tags: Error Handling

Open Action Items

Unassigned (Ordered by Priority)

• Finalize and stabilize error source iterators: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/58520
• Add an explanation of how panic = abort interacts with backtrace capture, and how to work around the issues to the backtrace documentation (background issue)
• close https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/65280 and open a follow up issue for leftover work
• Implement Try for ExitStatus, note that this is insta-stable with ?
• Add an Error Handling section to awesome-rust: https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust/issues/899

Sean Chen

• Add std::error::Report type to std nightly

Jane Lusby

• Update API guidelines to add a section on implementing Display vs source
• Discuss termination stabilization concerns with libs team issue:
  • internal representation decision
  • relation to specialization soundness
    • solvable with extension to specialization

Nick Cameron

• Open "type-driven generic data access" RFC on rust-lang/rfcs repo
• Land type-driven generic data access implementation on nightly

Santiago Pastorino

• implement coherence checking for negative trait impls