Zig Academy · Lesson

Propagate Failures with try

Bubble errors up with one keyword.

Handling Gets Repetitive

Writing an if-else around every fallible call to forward its error gets noisy fast. Zig offers a shortcut: the try keyword.

Put try before a fallible call. On success it hands you the value; on error it returns that error from your current function.

const n = try parse(input);