[tptacek]

One reason you're getting downvoted is that the note the parent commenter gave is pretty squarely in Go idiom. Go favors early-exit, and the Go community is unusually strict about idiom.

(I'm pretty well acquainted with this particular issue because my C coding style is strictly anti-early-exit, which drives almost everyone I work with up a wall. I had to unlearn that habit to write idiomatic Go.)

[stickydink]

Understandable, thanks for an explanation