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Ok, we won't call them exception handlers. Instead, call them "if anything goes wrong in this function do this" handlers.

• SamWhited 8y ago
  Those are very different things, whatever you want to call them. check/handle doesn't involve unwinding the stack, and doesn't default to crashing your program if you forget to add a handle block.
  • tonyedgecombe 8y ago
    and doesn't default to crashing your program if you forget to add a handle block Is that a good thing?
    • grey-area 8y ago
      Is that a good thing? Yes, because instead your program won’t compile if you forget to handle an error ( except in the case of a function which only returns error, which you can ignore by mistake - I would like to see that fixed in go 2 as well).
      • fwip 8y ago
        Expect to see a lot of `_, _ = fmt.Println(...)`, then.
        • grey-area 8y ago
          Since they’re calling it go 2 perhaps they could just make an exception for println by having an alternative with no error (like map access with k,ok or just k).