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Then use another word; 'defect' and 'fault' are two acceptable synonyms I managed to look up in less than a minute.

Given that errors and error handling itself is a very normal thing to come across in most projects, would the abbreviated `err` not seem more familiar than defect or fault, to you?

I mean... is using 'err' really that big of a deal?

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