Go proposal: Leave “if err != nil” alone?

Re:Go proposal: Leave “if err != nil” alone? by basic6 on Friday June 28, 2019 @01:28PM (#20306730)

Go's opinionated, three line if is part of the problem. A single line if or ternary operator would reduce the line noise.

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Re:Go proposal: Leave “if err != nil” alone? by __david__ on Friday June 28, 2019 @01:54PM (#20307025)

Yeah, it's quite common in C to just do:

    if (error) return error;

It's the same style as go, but so much more compact. If `go fmt` were to render the error boilerplate as

    if err { return err }

…instead of the three line boilerplate it insists on, then it would go a long way.

That said, I still support `try()`. It looks good to me, especially coming from Rust.

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