> You have to go out of your way to actually use a special character to do it. Only if the function returns more than the error. You can happily do this withou

> You have to go out of your way to actually use a special character to do it. Only if the function returns more than the error. You can happily do this without errors: fh = os.Create("/some/file") defer fh.Close() Needless to say, this is a terrible idea if the underlying filesystem can give you an error at close time, e.g. on NFS. The correct way to write the above code would be: fh = os.Create("/some/file") defer func() { if err := fh.Close(); err != nil { // Do something with the error } }() Yet, I see a lot of the former and very few instances of the latter.