With := you can define locale variable where you need it.
That's like pascal style (where you define all variables before the
code) versus c style (where you define variables with code).
Not critical, but there is a practical issue.
2013/5/1 erik quanstrom <quans...@labs.coraid.com>:
> On Tue Apr 30 18:50:42 EDT 2013, gleb.ax...@gmail.com wrote:
>> > syntax is: var=val cmd
>> Sure, foo=() bar=() baz=() { ... } works, but that's not very practical.
>
> i don't see the practical issue. the idiom described works fine.
>
> not liking the syntax is not a good reason to introduce incompatable
> ways of doing things.
>
> - erik
>
