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### What it does
Checks the doc comments of publicly visible functions that
return a `Result` type and warns if there is no `# Errors` section.

### Why is this bad?
Documenting the type of errors that can be returned from a
function can help callers write code to handle the errors appropriately.

### Examples
Since the following function returns a `Result` it has an `# Errors` section in
its doc comment:

```
/// # Errors
///
/// Will return `Err` if `filename` does not exist or the user does not have
/// permission to read it.
pub fn read(filename: String) -> io::Result<String> {
    unimplemented!();
}
```