Which do you default to? I see a lot of code using short decls in most cases, and only using long decls with no initialization where the zero value is needed. It seems to me that long decls should be the default declaration used because short decls are context-sensitive. That is, you have no idea what this is doing:
x, y := z() It might be declaring x and y, or just x, or just y. This can lead to copy/paste and variable shadowing errors. Long declarations don't have those problems. As a bonus, the long declaration syntax matches those for consts and types: const c = ... type t ... var x = ... So I use long declarations unless I need to declare a new variable in combination with assigning to an existing variable, like reusing an err variable: var w, err = x() y, err := z() The short declaration draws attention to the fact that something clever is going on. What do you think? I'm looking for pragmatic reasons for or against. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
