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<code class="sig">is_err(r: result) -&gt; bool</code>
<div class="desc"><p>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>.</p></div>
<div class="params"><h2>Parameters</h2><div class="param" id="param-r"><code class="pname">r</code><span class="pdesc">the result to test</span></div></div>
<div class="examples"><h2>Example</h2><pre data-lang="ludic">program Retry {
function step(n: int) -&gt; result {
if n &lt; 3 { return err("not ready") }
return ok(n)
}
test "is_err detects the failure case" {
expect(is_err(step(1)))
expect(not is_err(step(5)))
}
}</pre></div>
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