Google's Go & Exceptions

[dsimcha]

== Quote from John D (jdean at googling.com)'s article
> A programmer who does the above is not a good programmer. That said, a
> compiler that doesn't warn that variables or arguments have gone unused
> in a function is not a good compiler. That said, a language that doesn't
> enforce return val checking is not a good programming language.

Think about it for a minute.  When is the last time you checked the return value
for printf() in C?  Would you really want the compiler nagging you about something
like this?