The square bracket has a bit of history in go already, as a key-type specifier for the somwhat generics-like map declaration;
since we already do var map[int]string it feels a bit natural to specify types in square brackets to me. -- 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/6ea40e8b-9b1b-4e02-87bb-f60fd3e4416ao%40googlegroups.com.