A nice thing about Go is that it is easy on the eye. Names are short, and easy to read. When you look at Go code, you are not faced with a wall of black text. The signal to noise ratio is high. Variable and function names general convey what they do, what they mean, rather than the types of their return values. So we would tend to call a variable `count` rather than `countInteger`.
I don't have any pets. But if I had a dog, I might have named it fido. As a Go programmer, I would not have named it fidoDog. In the Go world, we do try to avoid verbosity, and long convoluted names. Another thing which makes Go easy to learn and easy to understand is that the API surface is generally small. I am glad that the Go team are doing their best to keep it that way. On Sunday, 29 December 2024 at 02:56:59 UTC Mike Schinkel wrote: There are big advantages in maps.Keys and maps.Values returning iterators. It allows us to iterate very big maps without having to allocate vast amounts of memory. I definitely agree there is a big advantage to have functions in the standard library that return iterators for maps. What is a shame, however, is that those functions did not get a naming convention to indicate them to be different from those that just return a slice of keys or a slice of values much like how the suffix `Func` is used as a naming convention to indicate that its parameters differ. As is they squat on obvious names for functions that just return slices. It would have been less confusing to learn and remember had they named them maps.KeysIterator and maps.ValuesIterator, maps.KeysSeq and maps.ValuesSeq, maps.KeysRange and maps.ValuesRange, or with some other suffix. But sadly, given the backward compatibility guarantee of Go, that ship has sailed. -Mike -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/e16fca3b-fd28-4213-b90d-87f4a9217874n%40googlegroups.com.
