Re: should we Go now?

From	Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.misc
Subject	Re: should we Go now?
Date	2013-02-25 17:01 -0800
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Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
>     An unusual control flow feature
>
> 	For me, one of the most notable features of Go seems to be its
> 	"defer" statement.  To quote [3]:
>
>  > A defer statement pushes a function call onto a list.  The list of
>  > saved calls is executed after the surrounding function returns.
>  > Defer is commonly used to simplify functions that perform various
>  > clean-up actions.

It looks similar to C's atexit(), except that it applies to an
individual function rather than just the entire program.

[...]

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should we Go now? Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-02-24 10:47 +0000
  Re: should we Go now? Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-02-24 13:40 +0000
  Re: should we Go now? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-02-24 16:37 +0000
    Re: should we Go now? Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-02-24 17:02 +0000
      Re: should we Go now? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-02-24 19:38 +0000
        Re: should we Go now? Nils M Holm <news2009@t3x.org> - 2013-02-25 07:23 +0000
          Re: should we Go now? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-02-25 17:30 +0000
      Re: should we Go now? Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-02-24 21:42 +0000
        Re: should we Go now? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-02-24 22:26 +0000
        Re: should we Go now? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-02-25 01:04 +0000
        Re: should we Go now? Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-02-25 13:32 +0000
          Re: should we Go now? Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-02-25 15:28 +0000
            Re: should we Go now? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-02-25 17:54 +0000
      Re: should we Go now? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-02-25 01:29 +0000
        Re: should we Go now? Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-02-25 13:12 +0000
  Re: should we Go now? Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-02-24 17:04 +0000
  Re: should we Go now? Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de> - 2013-02-24 18:24 +0100
  Re: should we Go now? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2013-02-25 17:01 -0800

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