On 11/12/2010 11:29 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
To me, what they're saying is that their syntax is broken and so it forces a convention upon the users to deal with the issue. I know this is just a bike shed issue, but seeing something like this in the beginning of the tutorial makes it difficult for me to take them seriously.
Yes, semicolons are a bike shed issue, and dismissing the whole language because of that is petty. Walter has made a point in the past about people who will look for one reason to dismiss something.
There are ideas worth looking at in Go, whether you decide to use the language or not.
