On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 17:15, Mike Schinkel <m...@newclarity.net> wrote:
> From https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#error-strings > > "Error strings should not be capitalized (unless beginning with proper > nouns or acronyms) or end with punctuation, since they are usually printed > following other context. That is, use fmt.Errorf("something bad") not > fmt.Errorf("Something bad"), so that log.Printf("Reading %s: %v", filename, > err) formats without a spurious capital letter mid-message. This does not > apply to logging, which is implicitly line-oriented and not combined inside > other messages." > Thanks, I can see the reasoning, although I'm not sure I agree with it. If you're only showing it to a programmer, worrying about the grammar of a capital letter after a colon seems needlessly pedantic. If you're showing it to end-users, you should probably be thinking about i18n anyway, and can load your own English translations (and user-friendly summaries) for whatever context you want to show them in. Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]
