One year of Go

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/12/10 10:57 AM, so wrote:
> Oh it is so brave to enforce that kind of thing, even as an individual i
> don't have a rule for that.
>
>> if(...)
>> {
>> ...
>> }
>
>> if(...) {
>> ...
>> }
>
> You can see both in my code and i have never thought that would offend
> someone.
> Sometimes one of them looks cuter than the other, depending on the
> context :P
>

Yah, the problem is they do different things. Try this:

package main
import "fmt"
func blah() bool {
    return false
}
func main() {
   x := 5
   if(blah()) {
     x++;
   }
   fmt.Printf("%d\n", x)
}

(which prints 5) and then this:

package main
import "fmt"
func blah() bool {
    return false
}
func main() {
   x := 5
   if(blah())
   {
     x++;
   }
   fmt.Printf("%d\n", x)
}

(which prints 6). Looks like a major problem to me. Comparing this with 
the meager advantage of eliminating semicolons, it seems that things 
took a wrong turn somewhere.


Andrei