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I like the second example, but without the |, so no new syntax is necessary. I don't like the first first one. It's too verbose, and it looks like it's trying

• deagle50 3y ago
  Was just showing how Rust and Zig do it. Go capture could omit the ||.
  • tail_exchange 3y ago
    I've seen proposals that were very similar. I think the problem with this approach is that it doesn't really make error handling that much easier. Typing "catch err" is not that different from typing "if err != nil".
• Cthulhu_ 3y ago
  In Go, if a function returns only an error, you can do if err := foo(); err != nil { // handle error } However, this only works in that particular case, if foo() also returns a value you can no longer use this because the value (and err) are scoped to the if block.