feat(errors): recoverable failures as values — try/else over ok/err results (#46)
A fallible function returns a `result` value, built with ok(payload) on success
or err(message) on failure. The caller recovers a value with `try EXPR else {
… }`: on ok the whole expression is the payload; on err the else block runs —
with the failure message bound to `error` — and its trailing expression supplies
the fallback. It is a plain branch on the result's tag: no exceptions, no hidden
control flow, nothing unwinds. is_ok(r) / is_err(r) classify without unwrapping.
Payloads are any i32-width scalar (int/fixed/bool/entity). The feature is
additive and only kicks in when ok/err/try are used, so untouched programs
compile byte-identically (verified) and the C-free bootstrap fixpoint holds.
Complements panic/assert from #8 (the unrecoverable half). The optional
top-level frame `recover` stays deferred (needs a frame-abort mechanism); the
full tagged-union/any generalization is tracked in #1.
Adds the `try` keyword and ok/err/is_ok/is_err builtins across the compiler,
the vocabulary header, JetBrains + TextMate/VSCode grammars, the docs inventory
and pages, examples/library/recover.ludic, and a regression case.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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id: fn-is_err
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name: is_err
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category: builtins
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kind: builtin
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tokens: is_err
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sig: is_err(r: result) -> bool
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tip: True when a result carries a failure.
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order: 15
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---
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Tests a <code>result</code>'s tag: <code>true</code> when it was built with <a href="fn-err"><code>err</code></a>, <code>false</code> when it was built with <a href="fn-ok"><code>ok</code></a>. Use it to detect the failure case explicitly — for example to count or log failures — while <a href="kw-try"><code>try</code></a>/<code>else</code> handles recovering a value. It is the exact negation of <a href="fn-is_ok"><code>is_ok</code></a>.
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Parameters:
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- `r` — the result to test
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```ludic
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program Retry {
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function step(n: int) -> result {
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if n < 3 { return err("not ready") }
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return ok(n)
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}
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test "is_err detects the failure case" {
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expect(is_err(step(1)))
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expect(not is_err(step(5)))
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}
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}
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```
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