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by edsrzf 5515 days ago
Yes, but it's much easier to recognize ignored error codes than ignored exceptions:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/14/35294...

In Go, it's even easier to recognize ignored error codes because you tend to have fewer levels of indentation and sometimes an explicit "_" when you're discarding a return value.