One document about Go

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-06-01 21:15, Walter Bright wrote:
> Lurker wrote:
>> == Quote from bearophile (bearophileHUGS at lycos.com)'s article
>>
>>> In Go you can omit semicolons at the end of lines, so I presume it's
>>> not a
>> terrible thing for C-like languages:
>>> package main
>>> import " fmt " // formatted I/O.
>>> func main() {
>>> fmt.Printf ("Hello Hello\n")
>>> }
>>
>> When will D support that? Removing unnecessary semis really pretties
>> up the
>> code.
>
> This idea reappears every few years, and even gets folded into a
> language now and then. It started with Pascal, and most recently has
> appeared in Javascript.

Making parenthesis optional in function calls and semicolons make quite 
a nice delegate literal syntax:

loop {
	// do something
}

The above is taken from Scala, it calls the "loop" function passing in a 
delegate literal. The function will loop indefinitely and call the 
delegate at each iteration.

> The idea basically sux because of the maintenance issue. What
> maintenance issue? The one where you decide to add a new line of code
> before the }. You inevitably forget to go back and append the ; to the
> previous line. Even if you do happen to remember, now your diff
> visualizer shows 2 lines changed rather than 1.
>
> C got it right and it doesn't need fixing.
>
> (There are other good reasons for the ; I outlined in my blog
> http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/archives/2010/05/improving_compi.html )


-- 
/Jacob Carlborg