On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 4:23 PM Steven Penny <srp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > You asked a question. People here are genuinely trying to help you by
> > giving you their acquired knowledge of (collectively) over more than a
> > couple of decades of Go programming.
>
> OK, so all all these decades of experience, why cant anyone produce a small
> program to demonstrate the problem? Either they cant be bothered, or they
> dont
> actually know how to create a program that would demonstrate a bad
> situation
> that could arise from not closing gzip reader.
>
> I am not questioning anyones knowledge, I am just asking for a
> demonstration,
> rather than "do it because we said so".
>

That is not a reasonable request. Everyone but you has been reasonable.
They've also provided good reasons for the recommendation to call the Close
method. That you have never observed a problem due to not calling the Close
method does not mean a problem can't happen.

-- 
Kurtis Rader
Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank

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