There are some real trade-offs with using exceptions, as per http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml#Exceptions http://google-styleguide.

There are some real trade-offs with using exceptions, as per http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml#Exceptions http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x... . However, as Go is garbage collected, some of these trade-offs don't apply.