Uses

Uses

Posted Mar 30, 2012 0:36 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Uses by imgx64
Parent article: Go version 1 released

I don't understand your last paragraph:

Some programmers use recover() to "increase reliability" by catching all possible panics. I find that rather useless, since the whole program will crash if a panic reaches the top of *any goroutine*, and no recover can help. It's usually easier to have a daemon process respawn the program (after logging the crash, of course).

So, can all panics be recovered from, or not? Case in point: I have a Python script which does a complex task and sends an email. If at any point there is an exception, it should also send an email and clean up. Would Go recover() help here?

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