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That's not really true though, I've used golang for years and never had semicolons added automatically.

• voidUpdate 2y ago
  I don't mean it actually adds them to the file itself, its like it adds virtual ones during compilation. Try placing the { from the func main() { on a new line and it will fail to compile
  • xandrius 2y ago
    Oh, I see, that's what you meant. Thanks for clarifying :)
• arp242 2y ago
  The Go compiler inserts semi-colons. https://go.dev/ref/spec#Semicolons https://go.dev/ref/spec#Semicolons If you follow those rules, you will see that this: if true; { fmt.Println() } else { fmt.Println() } Will get rewritten to: if true; { fmt.Println(); }; else; { fmt.Println(); }; And that won't work. That's why the braces need to be as "} else {". and "if .. {". It used to be that the compiler gave some pretty confusing errors about semi-colons on this, but it seems that's been improved now. JavaScript has similar semi-colon insertion by the way, but with some different (more confusing) rules.
  • xandrius 2y ago
    That's really neat, it had escaped me till now. Thanks for the explanation (today I'm one of the lucky 10,000!)