"In praise of Go" discussion on ycombinator

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/17/10 12:00 AM, Jay Byrd wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:55:42 -0700, Rainer Deyke wrote:
>
>> On 11/16/2010 22:24, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I'm curious what the response to my example will be. So far I got one
>>> that doesn't even address it.
>>
>> I really don't see the problem with requiring that '{' goes on the same
>> line as 'if'.
>
> It *isn't* required. But if you don't put it there, *you get the wrong
> result*. I really don't understand why the problem with Andrei's example
> isn't blatantly obvious to everyone, but I would not want to use any
> product of anyone for whom it isn't.

Exactly, that comes as a big surprise to me, too, in that discussion. I 
can only hypothesize that some readers just glaze over the example 
thinking "ah, whatever... a snippet trying to support some naysay", and 
they reply armed with that presupposition.

Andrei