Just to expand on this for other's benefit, it's not idiomatic for errors to result in panics; in general Go code will soldier on. If you're expecting code with

Just to expand on this for other's benefit, it's not idiomatic for errors to result in panics; in general Go code will soldier on. If you're expecting code with trouble to 'throw' an exception and puke, you're in for a bad time, or at least a confusing one.