Without apologies, I am linking to a post I wrote seconds ago regarding generics.
It applies here equally. Perhaps more so, since the percentage of brace-complainers is a tiny fraction of the percentage of generics-whiners: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/hQiZsd1ZRdA/DSgV7CX7BwAJ -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.