Look, I know that this is an enormously bad bug, but...
Google has a codebase that numbers multiple billions of lines. Using := means typing multiple billions of extra characters. That adds up. And it wouldn't even have prevented this bug!
All checks have costs. As Emerson said, "A stitch in time saves nine. So we make 1000 stitches, that by doing so we may save nine."
Google has a codebase that numbers multiple billions of lines. Using := means typing multiple billions of extra characters. That adds up. And it wouldn't even have prevented this bug!
All checks have costs. As Emerson said, "A stitch in time saves nine. So we make 1000 stitches, that by doing so we may save nine."