Hi All, I've been contemplating alternative methods to address the "boiler plate" of error handling in Go. One of the main benefits I see to the current approach is that indentation highlights exception paths vs the success path. From a readability perspective I can see the benefit of this approach. It allows a reader to efficiently scan a function.
One problem I see with the approach however is that it results in a lot of vertical expansion in the code. If you take a fail-fast and return such as the following it requires 4 lines of code for every check or worse people ignore the error with an underscore. r, err := os.Open("blah.txt") if err != nil { return nil, err } What I've been thinking about is a return statement that will return only if all of the values are non-nil/blank. The statement would enable you to replace the above with a single return as follows; r, err := os.Open("blah.text") retnn nil, err I'm not wedded to the statement name retnn but more the general principle. Thoughts? Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.