On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Hrobjartur Thorsteinsson
<thorsteinss...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mr. Bushnell,
> The code block identifier, in Go are { }. They are already part of the
> syntax if I'm not mistaken.
> Go proudly aiming to be a simplifying, lowest common denominator language
> makes sense to me.
> In that sense, the { signs tightly bound to declarations and control
> statements is redundant.
> In go { identifies a beginning of a code block, except where you have
> control statements of declarations.
>
> It could be reasonably argued that this is redundant, and therefore not
> common lowest denominator.
I think it's time to let this thread go back to sleep again. I think
that every possible point of view has already been expressed.
The language is not going to change. It is what it is.
Ian
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tbushn...@google.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 10:36 AM <ecstatic.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> But as Gofmt can ALREADY enforces this common coding style, and can be
>>> run at any time, including before committing code on the depots, why should
>>> it be enforced by the COMPILER too ?
>>
>>
>> The compiler does not enforce the use of gofmt.
>>
>> What you're complaining about is that the syntax of the language does not
>> permit a particular thing which the syntax of C does. It also doesn't permit
>> "a = b++" and many other things which C does.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>
>
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