Goto's are used extensively in the Linux kernel for clean exits from functions (...

scott_s on April 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Four days of Go

Goto's are used extensively in the Linux kernel for clean exits from functions (typically system calls) that must validate parameters, allocating resources as they go, but then abort if there are any errors in the parameters. For example: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/kernel/fork.c?v=3.3#L42...

nulltype on April 22, 2015 [–]

In Go, defer basically serves this use case.