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Re:Gopher Wrangling. Effective error handling in Go by aatd86 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @08:28AM (#36403065)
Oh you're right. I had forgotten about that.

I think it's mostly an API legacy mistake. Close should probably return (bool, error).

Probably a remnant of coding in C wrt sentinel values.

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Re:Gopher Wrangling. Effective error handling in Go by janosdebugs on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @08:56AM (#36403319)
You could still ignore both returned values. Go shouldn't allow ignoring returns without explicit dogsleds (underscore) at all if it were to stay "in character".
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