Announcing Failure

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I've encountered a minor inconvenience with Failure. Say that I have some function

fn foo(&self) -> Result<(), Error> { ... }

that is called from some other function

fn bar(&self) -> Result<(), Error> { foo() }

If I add a context in the most obvious way,

fn bar(&self) -> Result<(), Error> { foo().context("bar") }

it won't compile because I'm returning failure::Context instead of failure::Error. The fix is obvious

fn bar(&self) -> Result<(), Error> { Ok(foo().context("bar")?) }

but slightly annoying. (Well, the most annoying part is that I can never remember to add the Ok(...) until the compiler tells me I have to, but I'd rather put the blame somewhere else.)

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