> > There are many counter-examples. What is the likelihood that someone who > is not familiar with the "?" operator will be familiar with the operators > for getting (*) and dereferencing (&) a pointer. And what is "<-"? > Certainly people not familiar with Go will initially be confused by > operators related to channels. >
> If you allow people to use pointers, will they use pointers to pointers to > pointers to pointers? > Sure, every language feature has a complexity cost and a chance for abuse. However, the win for having pointers is, to me, a thousand times more significant than that of the ternary operator, so it helps outweigh the drawbacks that pointers introduce. > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 9:19 AM Sam Whited <s...@samwhited.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019, at 14:08, Mark Volkmann wrote: >> > Are there really developers that find this unreadable? >> > >> > color := temperature > 80 ? “red” : “green” >> >> Yes. >> >> What is "?"? If I've never seen that before I have no easy way to search >> for that, and a random symbol me nothing about what it does. Go >> specifically tries to stick to keywords because even if you've never >> seen them before it's generally easier to figure out what they do (or to >> search for them if you're not sure). >> >> Not to mention that even if you do know what they do, that specific >> statement isn't the problem. If you allow people to do that, they'll end >> up trying to nest it 5 levels deep. Go tries not to give people the >> tools to shoot themselves in the foot for some tiny perceived advantage. >> >> —Sam >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > -- > R. Mark Volkmann > Object Computing, Inc. > > -- > 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.
