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Mismatched output in chapter 4 #65

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@melston

I ran the code for chapter 4 and got a different output than you suggested should appear for the cases where Friend.requestBread would fail. I got the "Attempt X:..." messages but wouldn't get the Failure(Friend Unreachable). Instead I would get a stack trace that looked like this:

timestamp=2026-07-23T16:13:17.652150800Z level=ERROR thread=#zio-fiber-644678636 message="" cause="Exception in thread "zio-fiber-1699620585" java.lang.String: Failure(Friend Unreachable)
        at Chapter04_Initialization.Friend.forcedFailure(Chapter04_Initialization.scala:257)
        at Chapter04_Initialization.Friend.requestBread(Chapter04_Initialization.scala:275)
...

I spent quite a bit of time with Gemini trying a lot of different things to solve the problem but finally got it working by updating the ZIOAppDebug like this:

      override def run: ZIO[ZIOAppArgs & Scope, Any, Any] =
        // this tries to create consistency for how we run and print output between the book and the examples
        ZIO.scoped:
          self.run
            // Added the catch handler.
            .catchAll:
              case err: String =>
                ZIO.debug(s"$err")
              case other =>
                ZIO.fail(other)
        .tapSome:
          case result if !result.isInstanceOf[Unit] =>
            Console.printLine:
              s"Result: $result"

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