Comment Comment by papaf The simple proof that Go's approach is wrong is to look for all the Hello World examples. I have yet to find one that looks at the error return of the println, just like none look at the return of C's printf.The builtin println does not return a value. As stated in the language specification: http://golang.org/ref/spec#Bootstrapping parent papaf 14 years ago
The builtin println does not return a value. As stated in the language specification: http://golang.org/ref/spec#Bootstrapping