Given its prevalence all across Go code, are you _sure_ it's not idiomatic? Hell, look at the presentation in the link: http://talks.golang.org/2014/readability

Given its prevalence all across Go code, are you _sure_ it's not idiomatic? Hell, look at the presentation in the link: http://talks.golang.org/2014/readability.slide#11 http://talks.golang.org/2014/readability.slide#11. If the oracle of idioms does not write idiomatic code, then wtf is idiomatic code?