On Saturday, June 29, 2019 at 1:44:01 AM UTC+1, Tyler Compton wrote: > > ... I was surprised to see how poorly the discussion has gone. There are > quite a few "me too" comments, a few image-only posts, some less than > stellar personal conduct, and overall not a lot of nuanced discussion. I > feel that perhaps these kinds of anti-proposals should be discouraged > because they're inherently reactionary, which seems to get the discussion > off on the wrong foot. >
I agree with you. Maybe that's not what the author intended, but to me that anti-proposal feels like a giant middle finger to everyone - myself included - who feels unhappy with the current state of Go error handling. I think the quality of that discussion really just reflects its non-constructive nature. At risk of stating the obvious, I think we're being badly bitten by the bikeshed effect here; the subject under discussion is relatively easy to grasp, and so we get a litany of both counter-proposals (which has even happened before - see proposal: Go 2: simplify error handling with || err suffix <https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21161>) and zealously-held opinions. I also must say that I feel dismayed by how negative the tone of the conversation around the `try` proposal has been. I would certainly not expect everyone to like it as much as I do, but some people seem frightened or affronted by it far beyond what I'd consider reasonable. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/7573beb9-9c85-461d-9c3d-96b73b891c8b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
