They are different, and I'm biased towards a belief that error paths are more important, but I agree that intermixing them makes each harder to follow. This is

They are different, and I'm biased towards a belief that error paths are more important, but I agree that intermixing them makes each harder to follow. This is a limitation of the medium - text, and different languages attempts at solving this limitation through more text (try/catch, on error, etc.) have mostly failed, IMO. Go's method of treating them like any other value is the most honest approach I've seen. No one freaks out when a FizzBuzz program does different things with different categories of integers.