I think that this is a good question. I do question whether your code
examples are more or less simple when they are a single line. I'm worried
they may be more compact, which hurts the readability, while still
retaining the same complexity.
Being that you should be running `gofmt` before commiting, isn't this a bit
of a non-issue? You can write a single line, and then `gofmt` will take
care of the rest for you. You can use the brevity when you're developing,
but gain the readability again after `gofmt` works its magic.
To explain further, I find that multi-line if-blocks are more readable. I
originally formatted my func-literals on a single line, because I had come
from a Ruby background. Over the years I've changed my preference and
actual prefer the multi-line approach for my functions.
My editor also has a nice little completion where I can type `iferr`,
followed by a hotkey, and I get the block formatted out for me. This makes
it even less of an issue for me personally.
If-anything, my preference would be for `gofmt` to forbid single-line func
literals and to make them multi-line always.
Cheers!
-Tim
On Sunday, January 7, 2018 at 1:09:41 AM UTC+9, Tong Sun wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> *[This is just a thought, no flaming please if you don't agree]*
>
> Since `gofmt` supports one line func() definition, how about maintaining
> one line if statement as well if the user did so?
>
> This way, many of the simple three line code can be simplified to one:
>
> I.e., from
>
> if !condition {
> return
> }
>
>
> to just
>
> if !condition { return }
>
>
> *provided* that the user uses the one line if format in the first place.
>
> Thus, a *typical sample* code can be dramatically simplified, because so
> many three-line error checkings can now be,
>
> if err != nil { panic("something wrong") }
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
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