rust-lang/rfcs — pull request #201 by aturon (2014-08-15 22:41:15+00:00)
Title: RFC: error interoperation

This RFC improves interoperation between APIs with different error
types. It proposes to:

* Increase the flexibility of the `try!` macro for clients of multiple
libraries with disparate error types.

* Standardize on basic functionality that any error type should have
by introducing an `Error` trait.

* Support easy error chaining when crossing abstraction boundaries.

The proposed changes are all library changes; no language changes are
needed -- except that this proposal depends on
[multidispatch](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/195) happening.

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