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
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
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.
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
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
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 +
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:
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>>
>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:27 AM, wrote:
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>>> If
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Michael Jones
wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:27 AM, wrote:
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>> 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
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
>