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-1 to Automatic semicolon insertion (seriously).

by silon 15y ago

cageface 15y ago
Agreed. It achieves a marginal increase in readability at the cost of all kinds of screwy implicit behavior. I like languages with dumb syntax that editors and IDEs can understand.
- uriel 15y ago
  Go's syntax is one of the 'dumbest' around, it is extremely easy to parse compared to pretty much any other mainstream language (except scheme I guess). All the bitching about ';' comes from people that clearly have not used Go or tried to parse it.
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smosher 15y ago
Yup. I stopped following Go when that happened. Not intentionally but adding yet more things (invisible ones, no less) that I need to be wary of is not what I consider convenience in a syntax. Other more awkward languages became less inconvenient to use and I just stopped using Go. I probably would have kept at it a bit longer if the dev team was more accepting of feedback presented in good faith. I'm not really surprised -- it's often hard to tell the difference between fruitless bikeshedding and oh guys FYI you might consider this a problem, I do. I am biased towards semis though, when I first saw OCaml's ';;' I was pleased.
- silon 15y ago
  I mostly stopped too. I still read the mailing list occasionally, but haven't bothered to download any snapshots.
limmeau 15y ago
It's a lot more systematic than in JavaScript, rather similar to Python's semicoloning rules.
supersillyus 15y ago
Try as I might, I can't convince myself that semicolon insertion is something that I care about. Maybe I already have the One True Format trained into me, but I don't think I've ever had to think about or know the rules for semi-colon insertion. All I know is that I don't need to end things with ";" unless I'm trying to cram multiple things on a line, which I never am. That said, I remember seeing something about a way that semi-colon insertion leads to the possibility of a misleading "if", but I can't find it anymore.

-1 to Automatic semicolon insertion (seriously).

by silon 15y ago

-1 to Automatic semicolon insertion (seriously).

Agreed. It achieves a marginal increase in readability at the cost of all kinds of screwy implicit behavior. I like languages with dumb syntax that editors and IDEs can understand.

uriel 15y ago
Go's syntax is one of the 'dumbest' around, it is extremely easy to parse compared to pretty much any other mainstream language (except scheme I guess). All the bitching about ';' comes from people that clearly have not used Go or tried to parse it.

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smosher 15y ago

Yup. I stopped following Go when that happened. Not intentionally but adding yet more things (invisible ones, no less) that I need to be wary of is not what I consider convenience in a syntax. Other more awkward languages became less inconvenient to use and I just stopped using Go. I probably would have kept at it a bit longer if the dev team was more accepting of feedback presented in good faith. I'm not really surprised -- it's often hard to tell the difference between fruitless bikeshedding and oh guys FYI you might consider this a problem, I do. I am biased towards semis though, when I first saw OCaml's ';;' I was pleased.

silon 15y ago
I mostly stopped too. I still read the mailing list occasionally, but haven't bothered to download any snapshots.

limmeau 15y ago

It's a lot more systematic than in JavaScript, rather similar to Python's semicoloning rules.

supersillyus 15y ago

Try as I might, I can't convince myself that semicolon insertion is something that I care about. Maybe I already have the One True Format trained into me, but I don't think I've ever had to think about or know the rules for semi-colon insertion. All I know is that I don't need to end things with ";" unless I'm trying to cram multiple things on a line, which I never am. That said, I remember seeing something about a way that semi-colon insertion leads to the possibility of a misleading "if", but I can't find it anymore.