alt Hacker NewsI think its more of a comment that "err != nil" is used in the vast majority of cases, so you start to treat it as noise and skim it.
I think its more of a comment that "err != nil" is used in the vast majority of cases, so you start to treat it as noise and skim it.
That reality may make the fundamental flaws of the if statement more noticeable, but at the end of the day the problem is still that the if statement itself is not great. If we're going to put in effort to improve upon it – and it is fair to say that we should – why only for a type named error?