[Feature-Request/Proposal] Conditional Operator (error-handling)

[maverigz]

I am kind of new to GitHub and not sure if this is the right place to post this, but here it goes:

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go version 1.10

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes.

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

(Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 64-bit)
GOARCH="amd64"
GOCACHE="/home/thommy/.cache/go-build"
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/thommy/dev/go"
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="gcc"

What did you do?

https://play.golang.org/p/gjlLvTJX1ev

What did you expect to see?

Just that what I saw.

What did you see instead?

That what I expected.

 

The Problem: I would like Golang to have a ternary (or conditional) operator. This would help so much in a lot of situations, especially error-handling.
I have a lot of:

if err != nil {
    err.Error() 
} else {
    doSomething()
}

in my code, when I could shorten it to:

!err ? err.Error() : doSomething()

AFAIK there would be no compatibility-issues or whatsoever, since it's just a new feature to the language. If you don't know or understand the operator, or simply don't want to use it, then don't. I'd like to have this feature in Go.
This would clean up my code (IMO), and would make it more readable (at least for me).

Let me know what you think. Thanks!

[ghost]

This was already rejected in #20774 and #23248.

[maverigz]

@bontibon Okay thanks. I didn't find these when I first researched but I understand now that it is a design-decision to not support conditional operators, although I don't like it. Thanks again, issue closed.