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
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