There is a full blog article with the answer to this question :) https://blog.golang.org/gos-declaration-syntax It's so good, that I actually use it as a reference to people asking me about C's declaration syntax.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 8:03 AM Tristan Colgate <tcolg...@gmail.com> wrote: > But every aspect of that still reads unambiguously in a left to right > order. Actually understanding C declarations can be extremely challenging. > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, 06:47 Sathish VJ, <sathis...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> So, you are saying it is only for readability? >> >> But even in go we can write convoluted functions like: >> func f(func(*int, *string) *int, []*byte) (func(*int, *float32), error) >> >> >> On Thursday, 20 September 2018 11:09:23 UTC+5:30, kortschak wrote: >>> >>> To avoid having to have something like this: >>> >>> http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html >>> >>> On Wed, 2018-09-19 at 22:30 -0700, Sathish VJ wrote: >>> > I've been asked this question a few times and I haven't been able to >>> > find >>> > an answer. Why does go reverse the order of variable >>> > declaration: "i int" >>> > vs "int i" >>> > >>> > Is there anything in the language design that requires this or was it >>> > based >>> > on readability/writability or related to the parsing process or >>> > something >>> > else? >>> > >>> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
