I strongly dispute whether forcing a single statement in a block to be on a new line benefits readability. Sure, if the statement makes the line over 80 characters, but otherwise, the contrary. More work for the index finger and more time to lose context while reading the code.
I would say that in fact changing gofmt to force carriage returns between one statement and the enclosing brackets would not bother anyone, but I doubt it's ever going to happen. I like the way it lays out lists of variables in structs and const blocks, but then golint coerces you to put comments above exported variables and then gofmt breaks the vertical alignment anyway, so I'd rather lay them out with nice verticals just like it would be without those godoc comments. I write my code so that it is very readable, and I don't mind having to manually do some of this work since gofmt ignores the convention from nearly every other language allowing a single statement to be semantically the same as a statement block on a flow control statement. Visual Studio Code makes it very easy to manually line things up this way anyway so, read my code or not, idc, it won't be as spread out as gofmt. On Friday, 11 May 2018 11:26:13 UTC+3, Jan Mercl wrote: > > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 10:22 AM Louki Sumirniy <louki.sumir...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > On that note, I think that most of the ways that gofmt changes things is > nice but I think I'm disabling its use from now on because more than a few > times I have seen my line count expanded massively > > when most of the statement blocks were just one statement. I appreciate > the simplification it makes to the compiler to enforce all statement blocks > regardless of how many statements inside are > > wrapped, but I don't think it makes sense to add two lines just to do > something as simple as a break statement. > > Everyone is free to not use gofmt. Everyone else is free to not read code > that's not gofmt'ed. > > -- > > -j > -- 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.
