Writing Go it is good practice dealing with the errors first and, when possible, using if/return; and I agree. Less indentation is good IMHO, and conditional ne

Writing Go it is good practice dealing with the errors first and, when possible, using if/return; and I agree. Less indentation is good IMHO, and conditional nesting is usually best if avoided. Working on someone's else code I've found this: if a, err := func(); err != nil { return err } else { // a exists here ... } // a is gone I would have wrote it differently: a, err := func() if err != nil { return err } // work with a I guess it depends on the amount of code to put in the "else" branch, but I thought this was interesting because it looks like someone was avoiding to write the error checking in a different line.