Any form of restraining gofmt has my vote. One that I despise is ruining:

switch v {
case ‘a’: doA = true
case ‘b’: doB = true
:
case ‘z’: doZ = true
}

Just had this two days ago. So sad to see it balloon up

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 11:36 AM Aston Motes <ast...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This proposal is not very much different from a one-liner
>
> if err != nil { <single_statement> }
>
> It's just 10 more characters. Granted, gofmt won't leave the one-liner
> formatted that way, but it's not much more typing and comes with the
> benefit of not needing a new keyword.
>
> One variation on this proposal that is a little weird is that if could in
> the case of checking for an error omit the requirement that its argument be
> a boolean, giving
>
> if err { <single_statement> }
>
> Which is only 3 characters longer than on and again avoids a new keyword.
> I believe changing the behavior of if this way should be backwards
> compatible.
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 6:26 AM Michael Ellis <michael.f.el...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I like this. A lot.
>>
>> It's clean and explicit.  The reader only needs to understand that 'on'
>> is a test for a nil value (vs 'if' which tests for boolean true).
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 3:57:24 PM UTC-4, Liam wrote:
>>>
>>> This proposal has attracted modest attention from the Go team...
>>> https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32611
>>>
>>> It suggests:
>>>
>>> err := f()
>>> on err, <single_statement>
>>>
>>> on err, return err            // any type can be tested for non-zero
>>> on err, return fmt.Errorf(...)
>>>
>>> on err, fmt.Println(err)      // doesn't stop the function
>>> on err, continue              // retry in a loop
>>>
>>> on err, goto label            // labeled handler invocation
>>> on err, hname                 // named handler invocation
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And offers these possible extensions:
>>>
>>> on err, os.IsNotExist(err):  <stmt>
>>> on err, err == io.EOF:       <stmt>
>>> on err, err.(*os.PathError): <stmt>    // doesn't panic if not a match
>>>
>>> on err, <condition>: <stmt>
>>> on err: <stmt>              // this pair provides if/else in 2 lines
>>>
>>> on err := f(), <stmt> // for assignment with single lvalue
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Other punctuation is possible, e.g. on (err) <stmt>
>>>
>>> Now if we could just convince the Go gods to prototype this along with
>>> try() in 1.14 :-)
>>>
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