Very few, though. Very few. As the proverb says:
Gofmt's style is no one's favorite, yet gofmt is everyone's favorite. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c&t=8m43s> -rob On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Ecstatic Coder <ecstatic.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > Btw please don't take it personally. What I'm saying is that indeed some > people (including me as you see) WILL NEVER agree to be forced to change > their coding style because Google engineers have decided so, but that > doesn't mean we should stay away from go just because of our mental > incapacity to agree on that. > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:32 AM, <ecstatic.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I don't know if you have read this post above : >> >> "BTW, I've just released Genesis, an open source generic preprocessor >> which automatically converts Allman style code into K&R and allows >> genericity by parametric instantiation. >> >> https://github.com/senselogic/GENESIS >> >> Better late than never... ;)" >> >> Obviously, I don't like AT ALL the K&R style, to which I prefer the >> Allman style, for not only personal but also OBJECTIVE reasons. >> >> And yet I've learned Go and enjoy a lot to use this language, despite >> this implies using an external tool to add genericity and fix the code >> indentation. >> >> Btw here are the result of a small internet poll on indentation styles : >> >> - Allman : 7450 votes >> - K&R style : 5514 votes >> - Whitesmith : 455 >> - GNU : 422 >> - Horstman : 131 >> - Pico : 93 >> - Banner : 243 >> >> (http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/04/10/the- >> only-correct-indent-style) >> >> Even if these 14000 votes are obviously not enough to reflect the whole >> development community, at least you can see here that many developers >> prefer the Allman style to the K&R style. >> >> So sorry, but I completely disagree with your advice to stay away from Go >> if you don't like its forced indentation style policy. >> >> It's not only too radical, but also not needed, as there are already >> tools to fix that issue. >> >> >> On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 12:01:19 AM UTC+1, JuciÊ Andrade wrote: >>> >>> I propose a new rule for our Code of Conduct: Before posting to the "No >>> Allman-Style, No go!" thread, you shall read and understand all previous >>> posts in the aforementioned thread. >>> >>> Justo to be clear: Go indentation style is a time saver. It was carefuly >>> crafted to piss some people off. As you can see, it works wonders. If >>> someone can't handle a simple change in indentation style, then she has no >>> business trying to learn Go, so she quits, thus saving time. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/to >> pic/golang-nuts/rzLzp_Z74ik/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
