To me, the benefit of defer over try/finally is code locality: You can easily see whether some action has an associated cleanup, because the 'defer' statement i

To me, the benefit of defer over try/finally is code locality: You can easily see whether some action has an associated cleanup, because the 'defer' statement is just before/after the action. With try/finally, the cleanup (which has to be in sync with the action) might be outside your editor window.