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		macintux 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: (On \| No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling I know diddly/squat about Go, but from similar patterns in aeons past, would "nil == err" work as a way to make it stand out?

haiku2077 9 months ago | [–]

Just tried this and it appears to be valid in the compiler, formatter and golangci-lint

_whiteCaps_ 9 months ago | | [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda_conditions

Works especially well in languages that can make assignments in if statements, e.g:

if foo = 42 { }

macintux 9 months ago | | | [–]

Thank you, I was unaware of this label. Quite descriptive.

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