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I totally agree! just to leave it clear, I did not create it to be even used, it's an experiment.

I guess, it shows how powerful the panic(), recover(), defer can be, in my opinion much more than try/catch/finally.

A practical demonstration. Go even without explicit exceptions has the semantics needed to provide it exactly in the same way Java/C++ and Python does.

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I'm truly not trying to be rude, but if you agree with the above point, then why did you make it publicly available? Only two outcomes can come of this:

1. Nobody uses it, for the reasons posted above.

2. People actually use it, which is bad, for the reasons posted above.

What you were trying to learn from this "experiment"? And what did you actually learn that is valuable to other people?

I am not trying to learn Go, I have been using it for years (without exceptions :) ) i believe clever hacks are usually helpful to open people's minds, don't you?

another examples, (not sure if you know objective-c). primitive type generics using macros + blocks: https://github.com/manucorporat/obme-ios/blob/master/obme.h

another example or a clever hack to break the limits ;)

Maybe he did it for fun. Hacks don't have to be useful. Brad Fitzpatrick provided a Go solution to goal (https://github.com/eatnumber1/goal). Ken Thompson used to write quines (http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html). No harm in doing so, especially when it is not wrongly marketed as some kind of useful problem-solving library.

I found it interesting to read. Seems like enough reason to me. We aren't running out of bits.

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