On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Hrobjartur Thorsteinsson <thorsteinss...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Do you realize that the Go lang devs themselves are not actually in > agreement about the original motivations for constraining the language in > this way. Some quote some one true K&R style, while it is in fact this is > not K&R style, other quote some dubious statistics on programmer habbits > with code blocks, and yet other quote that it's just to help the Go-lang > compiler meta-compile statement delimiters ";". All this confusion and > effort for nothing, and all the while ignoring some real bad programming > habits, I guess in the name of liberty... or one day they will eventually > arbitrate what is good and bad in those areas too. > > Could it be that Go lang devs created an inflexibility, a storm in a > tea-cup, for no real good reason. Such things have happened in software > before.
I doubt there is any significant disagreement among the core Go developers about the gofmt choices for brace placements. The reasons are 1) it doesn't matter, gofmt just has to make a choice; 2) the choice works well with lexical semicolon insertion. Ian -- 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.
