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by alphazard
1066 days ago
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Personally, I don't really see anything wrong with explicit error values, and checking them against nil. The point I was trying to make is that some amount of people see the benefit in removing much smaller boilerplate. And so presumably at least as many people should see the benefit of removing a larger amount of boilerplate. I'm just talking about the benefits here. There is also a cost to expanding the language. The costs might outweigh the benefits, but it doesn't mean that the benefits don't exist. |
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Agreed. I think this is where the discussion will focus. I'm glad that historically the Go team have weighted the costs heavily, and hope they continue to do so.
I guess I'm in the minority but boilerplate really doesn't bother me. Going the other way gets too much "magic" and we lose the ability to fine-tune behaviour.