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add matching doc to errorkind #94273

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13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions library/std/src/io/error.rs
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Expand Up @@ -141,6 +141,19 @@ struct Custom {
/// It is used with the [`io::Error`] type.
///
/// [`io::Error`]: Error
///
/// # Handling errors and matching on `ErrorKind`
///
/// In application code, use `match` for the `ErrorKind` values you are
/// expecting; use `_` to match "all other errors".
///
/// In comprehensive and thorough tests that want to verify that a test doesn't
/// return any known incorrect error kind, you may want to cut-and-paste the
/// current full list of errors from here into your test code, and then match
/// `_` as the correct case. This seems counterintuitive, but it will make your
/// tests more robust. In particular, if you want to verify that your code does
/// produce an unrecognized error kind, the robust solution is to check for all
/// the recognized error kinds and fail in those cases.
#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, Hash, Ord, PartialEq, PartialOrd)]
#[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
#[allow(deprecated)]
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