Google's Go & Exceptions

[Walter Bright]

bearophile wrote:
> In GCC there is also the "warn_unused_result" function attribute that
> raises a compile time warning if you don't use the return value of a
> function: 

That may wind up suffering similar problems as checked exceptions do - 
just do a quick and dirty assign the return value to a hastily declared 
temp and ignore it, meaning to fix it later.

Of course, it doesn't actually get fixed later. Even worse, during code 
reviews, it will look like the code is paying attention to the error 
code, but it won't be.