On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Anmol Sethi wrote:
> What seperates a compile and stylistic error? As in, why not make the
> non-gofmt style illegal and enforce the gofmt style by the compiler?
Two reasons, I think:
1. It would make the compiler more complicated
2. Because gofmt isn't perfe
That would be pretty heavy-handed. The determination of what's style and
what's not is a little arbitrary. For the most part, gofmt is all about
where the whitespace goes (there are other things, I realize). The compiler
mostly doesn't care about whitespace, as long as some whitespace is present
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