I suppose in a way it is. With the semi-colon, it's present or not. Whereas uppercase for export is kind of mixing information. The casing of identifiers is syn

I suppose in a way it is. With the semi-colon, it's present or not. Whereas uppercase for export is kind of mixing information. The casing of identifiers is syntax, not just stylistic - but only the first character. Otherwise, it's just for readability (e.g. valueOf vs valueof). Which has interesting consequences, e.g. for non-ASCII identifiers where there is no concept of lower- or uppercase: https://go.dev/doc/faq#unicode_identifiers https://go.dev/doc/faq#unicode_identifiers Whether or not this bothers you is a different question.