" It does seem that a lot of key decisions are being made on the basis of
a very small sample of emoji votes in the issue tracker, so having a
broader voting mechanism might be useful for informing the decision making
process.. .."
At the very least, 'a broad voting mechanism' would eliminate tons of
repetitive posts regarding issues like ' if err != nil {..} ' and help Go
developers focus of issues of major importance to Go users
On Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 9:50:27 PM UTC-4, Randall O'Reilly wrote:
>
> I noticed a kind of circularity in the arguments around this issue. The
> simple "inline the if block" issue was created and rejected earlier:
> https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27135 -- in part because the central
> issue of error handling logic was supposed to be resolved by some other
> upcoming proposals. The newer issue: https://golang.org/issue/38151 has
> some additional elements that potentially detract from the basic gofmt-only
> version, and it has also been closed. There is also this closely related
> proposal which has not yet been rejected:
> https://github.com/golang/go/issues/37141
>
> Overall there is certainly a consistent message from a substantial number
> of people that just compressing that high-frequency `if err != nil` logic
> down to 1 line *somehow* would solve most of the problem! But then there
> are those who argue in favor of the status quo.
>
> Because consistency in formatting is an essential part of Go, it seems
> that this is fundamentally an "aesthetic" decision that must either be made
> by the core designers, or, perhaps, finding some way of performing a
> large-scale democratic voting process that would reasonably enable a large
> portion of the Go community to weigh in. It does seem that a lot of key
> decisions are being made on the basis of a very small sample of emoji votes
> in the issue tracker, so having a broader voting mechanism might be useful
> for informing the decision making process.. Anyone know how to write a
> good vote-collecting webserver in Go? :)
>
> - Randy
>
> > On Jun 14, 2020, at 12:39 PM, Tom Limoncelli <t...@whatexit.org
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> >
> > Great minds think alike!
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 12:56 PM Ian Lance Taylor <ia...@golang.org
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 8:25 AM Tom Limoncelli <t...@whatexit.org
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 3:34 PM Ian Lance Taylor <ia...@golang.org
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 8:43 AM <lgo...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> 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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