Given all Go's narrow minded ideas for the sake of purity, := should be considered a vicious hack and removed from the language. Adding a simple
var err At the top of a routine won't kill people. In my own experience, that construct is the single largest cause of trivial errors in Go that I've seen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.