Comment on Google Go: Good For What?parentComments−mseepgood13yHe confuses forward declarations with "declaring the type before the variable name".−nollidge13yI think you mean "declaring the variable name before the type".So C is "int x" where Go is "x int". BASIC is typically more like "DIM x AS INTEGER".−tptacek13yFor the record: as someone who started in the early '90s in C, I hate hate hate the Go declaration syntax. But the designers make a very compelling case for why it's the right syntax: C function pointers are needlessly convoluted.−erichocean13yScala is the same way, and their rational is that it makes it easy (in the parser, I guess) to just omit the type.It is weird at first, but you get used to it, like everything syntactic.−batista13y>For the record: as someone who started in the early '90s in C, I hate hate hate the Go declaration syntax.Why hate something trivial that takes 2 minutes to adjust to and has benefits without any drawbacks whatsoever?−thebigshane13yDoesn't hating something usually imply that one is being irrational about it?I'm sure `tptacek` will get over it :-)
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He confuses forward declarations with "declaring the type before the variable name".
I think you mean "declaring the variable name before the type".
So C is "int x" where Go is "x int". BASIC is typically more like "DIM x AS INTEGER".
For the record: as someone who started in the early '90s in C, I hate hate hate the Go declaration syntax. But the designers make a very compelling case for why it's the right syntax: C function pointers are needlessly convoluted.
Scala is the same way, and their rational is that it makes it easy (in the parser, I guess) to just omit the type.
It is weird at first, but you get used to it, like everything syntactic.
>For the record: as someone who started in the early '90s in C, I hate hate hate the Go declaration syntax.
Why hate something trivial that takes 2 minutes to adjust to and has benefits without any drawbacks whatsoever?
Doesn't hating something usually imply that one is being irrational about it?
I'm sure `tptacek` will get over it :-)