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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions src/doc/trpl/error-handling.md
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Expand Up @@ -208,8 +208,8 @@ Because these kinds of situations are relatively rare, use panics sparingly.

In certain circumstances, even though a function may fail, we may want to treat
it as a panic instead. For example, `io::stdin().read_line(&mut buffer)` returns
a `Result<usize>`, when there is an error reading the line. This allows us to
handle and possibly recover from error.
a `Result<usize>`, which can indicate an error if one occurs when reading the line.
This allows us to handle and possibly recover from errors.

If we don't want to handle this error, and would rather just abort the program,
we can use the `unwrap()` method:
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