Maybe its just me, but I like the fact that adding exponential backoff to an HTTP request goes from http://play.golang.org/p/8WQ8XXrKw0 http://play.golang.org/p

Maybe its just me, but I like the fact that adding exponential backoff to an HTTP request goes from http://play.golang.org/p/8WQ8XXrKw0 http://play.golang.org/p/8WQ8XXrKw0 to http://play.golang.org/p/3tCiNhAfo3 http://play.golang.org/p/3tCiNhAfo3, in no small part due to the explicit error-handling style of Go.