Go 2 error handling

01-code_example.md

Based on what I believe to be the best ideas proposed for Go 2 -- namely https://gist.github.com/akavel/62d90bdc43088574c638eb3b16301a92#gistcomment-2692584 -- here is what a key example from the Go 2 error handling proposal would look like:

This example from https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draft-error-handling-overview.md

func CopyFile(src, dst string) error {
	handle err {
		return fmt.Errorf("copy %s %s: %v", src, dst, err)
	}

	r := check os.Open(src)
	defer r.Close()

	w := check os.Create(dst)
	handle err {
		w.Close()
		os.Remove(dst) // (only if a check fails)
	}

	check io.Copy(w, r)
	check w.Close()
	return nil
}

should become

func CopyFile(src, dst string) error {
	handle err {
		return fmt.Errorf("copy %s %s: %v", src, dst, err)
	}

	r := check os.Open(src)
	defer r.Close()

	w := check os.Create(dst)

	defer func() {
		if err != nil {
			w.Close()
			os.Remove(dst) // (only if a check fails)
		}
	}()

	check io.Copy(w, r)
	check w.Close()
	return nil
}

I agree with the counter-proposals insisting that each handle block should return; without this, error handling becomes scattered all over the place and we thus lose the localized error handling characterized by Go contra languages that use exceptions, which we should continue not to emulate.