Naming the return value in the function signature will both allocate the named variable, as well as make it the default variable to return.

Returning a new unnamed variable for every return will cause all of the unnamed variables to be allocated.

It's interesting, I don't use this feature of the language... my default way to write this would have been:

  func NoNamedReturnParams(i int) (*objectInfo) {
        obj := &objectInfo{}
	if i == 1 {
		// Do one thing
		return obj
	}

	if i == 2 {
		// Do another thing
		return obj
	}

	if i == 3 {
		// Do one more thing still
		return obj
	}

	// Normal return
	return obj
  }