Exercise: Errors
Copy your Sqrt
function from the earlier exercise and modify it to return an error
value.
Sqrt
should return a non-nil error value when given a negative number, as it doesn't support complex numbers.
Create a new type
type ErrNegativeSqrt float64
and make it an error
by giving it a
func (e ErrNegativeSqrt) Error() string
method such that ErrNegativeSqrt(-2).Error()
returns "cannot Sqrt negative number: -2"
.
Note: a call to fmt.Sprint(e)
inside the Error
method will send the program into an infinite loop. You can avoid this by converting e
first:fmt.Sprint(float64(e))
. Why?
Change your Sqrt
function to return an ErrNegativeSqrt
value when given a negative number.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"math"
)
var delta = 0.00001
type ErrNegativeSqrt float64
func (e ErrNegativeSqrt) Error() string {
return fmt.Sprintf("cannot Sqrt negative number: %v", float64(e))
}
func Sqrt(x float64) (float64, error) {
if x < 0 {
return x, ErrNegativeSqrt(x)
}
z := 1.0
var z1 float64
z1 = z - (z * z - x) / (2 * z)
for math.Abs(z1 - z) > delta {
z = z1
z1 = z - (z * z - x) / (2 * z)
}
return z1, nil;
}
func main() {
fmt.Println(Sqrt(2))
fmt.Println(Sqrt(-2))
}