On 3 June 2013 18:04, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:

> No, Go's intent is to minimise runtime surprises.


It's not a runtime surprise to Go programmers, since no ordinary Go code
runs in that note handler.
There's a rather elaborate implementation to convert notes (or signals)
into something acceptable
to the rest of the Go runtime. It does as little as it can.