I don't see how finally (especially with the unusual order) is much cleaner than defer. That's the main advantage of defer: the idiomatic way to use defer is ri

I don't see how finally (especially with the unusual order) is much cleaner than defer. That's the main advantage of defer: the idiomatic way to use defer is right after the construction of the object in question, rather than half a screenful down like it would be in Java and friends.