Rob Pike 12 January 2015 A common point of discussion among Go programmers, especially those new to the language, is how to handle errors. The conversation often turns into a lament at the number of times the sequence if err != nil { return err } shows up. We recently scanned all the open source projects we could find and discovered that this snippet occurs only once per page or two, less often th
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