Great minds think alike!
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 12:56 PM Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 8:25 AM Tom Limoncelli <t...@whatexit.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 3:34 PM Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 8:43 AM <lgod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ?? Why not a cleaner syntax e.g. x = some_func () #{ } .. symbol #
> > > > arbitrarily chosen
> > >
> > > Besides what other people have said, it may be of interest to glance
> > > through
> > > https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3Aerror-handling
> >
> > I assert that 80% of the annoyance that people feel is the number of
> > lines required to handle errors, not the syntax. Thus, a large
> > segment of the community would stop caring about this if we modified
> > gofmt, not the go language. Specifically, gofmt would simply format
> > short if's on one lie when possible.
> >
> > OLD:
> >
> > a, err := ioutil.ReadFile(patha)
> > if err != nil {
> > return err
> > }
> > b, err := ioutil.ReadFile(pathb)
> > if err != nil {
> > return err
> > }
> > c, err := ioutil.ReadFile(pathc)
> > if err != nil {
> > return fmt.Errorf("wrapped %v: %w", pathc, err)
> > }
> >
> > NEW:
> >
> > a, err := ioutil.ReadFile(patha)
> > if err != nil { return err }
> > b, err := ioutil.ReadFile(pathb)
> > if err != nil { return err }
> > c, err := ioutil.ReadFile(pathc)
> > if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("wrapped %v: %w", pathc, err) }
> >
> > This is half as many lines, thus makes it easier to fit on one
> > screenful of an editor, which is often a cognitive limit for a
> > developer.
> >
> > I'm not saying that this solves the problem, but I bet it would reduce
> > the pressure to fix it.
>
>
>
> https://golang.org/issue/38151
>
> Ian
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