Re: [go-nuts] Re: Semicolons in Go

2017-04-24 Thread john . deighan
Ian, thank you for the thoughtful reply. I realized that my last post might have sounded like I was criticizing your post and that definitely wasn't the intention. My apologies. On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 10:48:25 AM UTC-4, Ian Davis wrote: > > With respect, you are tilting at windmills. You

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Semicolons in Go

2017-04-24 Thread David Peacock
Please don't feed this troll. On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:42 AM, wrote: > One of the things that I learned early in life is to recognize B.S. when I > see it. My B.S. flag went up first when I read where someone claimed that > "artifacts" are bad and detract from the

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Semicolons in Go

2017-04-24 Thread John Deighan
I won't. I'm done with this thread. On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:52 AM David Peacock wrote: > Please don't feed this troll. > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:42 AM, wrote: > >> One of the things that I learned early in life is to recognize B.S.

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Semicolons in Go

2017-04-24 Thread Ian Davis
With respect, you are tilting at windmills. You replied to an 8 year old post from the design phase of the language. It's now 2017 and no-one wants to step back in time to change what has turned out to be a very successful design. You stated in your first message that you "simply won't use the

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Semicolons in Go

2017-04-24 Thread john . deighan
One of the things that I learned early in life is to recognize B.S. when I see it. My B.S. flag went up first when I read where someone claimed that "artifacts" are bad and detract from the readability of code. A compact and well-defined artifact, like the semicolon, makes code *more* readable

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Semicolons in Go

2017-04-24 Thread roger peppe
On 22 April 2017 at 02:59, Matt Harden wrote: > a = ( b > + c > + d > * e > ) That doesn't work: https://play.golang.org/p/z6HFDK3XRT The usual Go idiom is to leave the operators at the end of the lines: a = b + c +

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Semicolons in Go

2017-04-21 Thread Matt Harden
a = ( b + c + d * e ) On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:24 PM John McKown wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Michael Jones > wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:27 AM, wrote: >> >>> If

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Semicolons in Go

2017-04-20 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Michael Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:27 AM, wrote: > >> If I can't format my programs the way I want, and I much prefer putting >> operators at the beginning of continuation lines for reasons

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Semicolons in Go

2017-04-20 Thread Michael Jones
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:27 AM, wrote: > If I can't format my programs the way I want, and I much prefer putting > operators at the beginning of continuation lines for reasons mentioned on > this page, and "Perl Best Practices", I simply won't use the language - at >