The main thing is not to do things that would be fine in other languages when they result in complications in the one you’re using. Some people want to write an

The main thing is not to do things that would be fine in other languages when they result in complications in the one you’re using. Some people want to write an entire library rather than writing statements. Why? Also, local names can sometimes be useful documentation when the function names don’t really get the point across (perhaps because they’re at a different level of abstraction). Or alternatively, in Go it’s idiomatic to keep them short.