> concise and elegant I would like to counter with my C++ way of doing error handling without exceptions: if (!func1()) return false; if (!func2()) re

> concise and elegant I would like to counter with my C++ way of doing error handling without exceptions: if (!func1()) return false; if (!func2()) return false; if (!func3()) { err = get_error(); ... } if (!func4()) return false; Each function sets a global exception-like error object which can be inspected by the caller if the function signaled an error (like returning false in this example): Of course you need thread local variables for this. Not sure if this is a problem for Go or in general...