Personally I very much like the fact that name comes before type because the name is the most important thing. The type is a secondary consideration.
Limbo (a significant Go predecessor) had the colon there too and I thought I'd find its lack might make Go declarations hard to read but I really don't find that it does. On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, 5:33 pm Andy Balholm, <andybalh...@gmail.com> wrote: > It made sense to Ken and Dennis back when C’s type system was a lot > simpler than it is now, anyway. > > On Sep 20, 2018, at 7:40 AM, Michael Jones <michael.jo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > the other answer is: "for c it made sense to ken and dennis, alas, we are > not them" > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:32 AM Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote: > >> Dan Kortschak <dan.kortsc...@adelaide.edu.au>: >> > To avoid having to have something like this: >> > >> > http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html >> >> OK, we now have another candidate for the topic of the Mysterious >> Stranger's >> thumb drive. A tortuous spiral, drawing the minds of unwary programmers >> into nighted depths of abyssal madness. I'm really glad I never summoned >> up the nerve to mount the thing. >> -- >> <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> >> >> My work is funded by the Internet Civil Engineering Institute: >> https://icei.org >> Please visit their site and donate: the civilization you save might be >> your own. >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > -- > > *Michael T. jonesmichael.jo...@gmail.com <michael.jo...@gmail.com>* > > -- > 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.
