On Jul 15, 2020, at 12:13 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: > > The disadvantage of guillemets is that they are hard to type on many > keyboards. So to me either square brackets or angle brackets would be > better than guillemets.
Not to mention that, while Go *is* officially in UTF-8, the chance of an output device or editor mis-formatting something that isn't 7-bit ASCII is still reasonably significant even in 2020, and that has much graver consequences for delimiters than for, say, identifiers or string contents. I'm curious about how screen readers react as well; I know we have one or two folks on this list who could probably offer some perspective there. > The disadvantage of a two character sequence such as <: :> is that it > is more typing. So again either square brackets or angle brackets > seem to me to be better. > > An example of a reason that square brackets might be a poor choice > would be ambiguous parsing, or cases where the code is harder to read. > > It's true that some other languages use angle brackets, but Go already > does many things differently. That is only a minor advantage for > angle brackets. To me at least it does not outweigh the > disadvantages. I think square brackets do the job of visually disambiguating the syntax from the other uses of parentheses on the same lines well enough, and it sounds like with the "type" keyword they do the job well enough for the parser as well. Personally, I have no horse in the race for square vs. angle brackets (other than I think it would be foolish to do something technically infeasible or problematic just because it subjectively looks nicer), but then, I also like Objective-C's visual styling, so YMMV. - Dave -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/94FC42B1-ABD0-4E37-AE80-0B4313DC34C9%40gmail.com.
