On Tuesday, 2 October 2018 15:21:08 UTC+2, Eric Raymond wrote: > > Is promised in the thread on pytogo, I have blogged on the general topic > of rule-swarm attacks in the domain of language transformation. > > http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8153 >
There's so much in your blog post I would like to address, I'm not sure where I would find it comfortable to do that, Eric. One thing about comments is special to Go. I have no doubt that eventually a syntax for Go comments that sacrifices immediate readability for a more careful description will eventually mature and take over. That is of course the role of hypertext and gofmt has already planted the seed with godoc is fertilising it. The other issue that strikes me is that it should be possible to link rules, individually and/or in swarms of various sizes, to the target AST analyser and demand a sensible response from it. Such a feedback loop would eliminate at least some false outcomes, be they positive or negative. But, as I like to stress, I'm a rank amateur, deeply steeped in that very pervasive Western Philosophy that seeks meaning in every atom of the Universe, every pattern. It is hard to sacrifice the aesthetic needs of that mindset, because that results in nullifying the long-term value of one's actions and causes the future to become irrelevant. And, in passing, I think the idea that the distant future is important enough to sacrifice some of the present to it, is a Judeo-Christian, rather than a Hellenic principle (although, in Sting's lyrics "the Russians love their children, too)". Lucio. -- 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.
