That’s a very fair ask. I will work up some code and it will be interesting to see how much they actually differ.
I do think that the differences will be more apparent in the handling of errors during processing - eg Scan() - than during resource acquisition/initialization. > On Feb 21, 2021, at 8:52 PM, Ian Davis <m...@iandavis.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, at 5:23 PM, robert engels wrote: >> Can someone please explain the benefit of ‘error return’ over ‘checked >> exceptions’ ? I have made the point a few times and it goes to crickets >> - I have to believe that is because there is none, or it is difficult >> to communicate. >> > > I think since this is a Go list, the onus is on advocates of exceptions to > demonstrate the benefit of checked exceptions over error return values. > > Here are a couple of scenarios that I encountered recently that had logical > linear flow with error returns. I'm curious how they would be improved with > checked exceptions: > > 1) open three files for writing, closing the earlier ones if a subsequent one > fails to open > > 2) open a file for append, falling back to creating a new writeable file if > the original is read-only or doesn't exist. The new file creation may also > fail due to disk errors or permissions. > > I can envisage how to write them with exceptions but I'm struggling to see > where it would be more succinct or easier to read. > > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/9f3cf023-5bb4-49da-a842-0be97904d21a%40www.fastmail.com. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/D4D23F5D-E685-4873-BEA1-6F0179F0347D%40ix.netcom.com.
