Copy your Sqrt
function from the earlier exercises 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.Print(e)
inside the Error
method will send the program into an infinite loop. You can avoid this by converting e
first:fmt.Print(float64(e))
. Why?
Change your Sqrt
function to return an ErrNegativeSqrt
value when given a negative number.
package main import (
"fmt"
"strconv"
)
type ErrNegativeSqrt float64
func (e ErrNegativeSqrt) Error() string{
if e < {
return "cannot Sqrt negative number:" + strconv.FormatFloat(float64(e),'f',,)
}
return ""
}
func Sqrt(f float64) (float64, error) {
var e error
if f < {
return ,ErrNegativeSqrt(f)
}
var z float64 =
for i := ; i < ; i++ {
z = z - (z*z - f) / ( * z)
}
return z,e
} func main() {
fmt.Println(Sqrt())
fmt.Println(Sqrt(-))
}