On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 6:27 AM Nigel Tao <nigel...@golang.org> wrote:

> As per https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#mixed-caps ALL_CAPS
> names are unusual Go style.

They are, but token names are often/traditionally all caps and underscores:
https://golang.org/pkg/go/token/#Token - in the old lex style. And it has a
good reason, to distinguish terminals in a grammar. Even Go EBNF in the
specification wants to make terminals stand out, even though using a
different style, like in int_lit: https://golang.org/ref/spec#Operands.



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-j

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