> a. the language has a mechanism for scoped resource allocation (ie. defer, finally, with, unwind-protect or "RAII") Just being pedantic here. RAII is more sp

> a. the language has a mechanism for scoped resource allocation (ie. defer, finally, with, unwind-protect or "RAII") Just being pedantic here. RAII is more specific than the defer statement that Go offers. Strictly speaking, defer is not RAII.