> You have to go out of your way to actually use a special character to do it.
Only if the function returns more than the error. You can happily do this without errors:
fh = os.Create("/some/file")
defer fh.Close()
Needless to say, this is a terrible idea if the underlying filesystem can give you an error at close time, e.g. on NFS. The correct way to write the above code would be:
fh = os.Create("/some/file")
defer func() {
if err := fh.Close(); err != nil {
// Do something with the error
}
}()
Yet, I see a lot of the former and very few instances of the latter.
