Can anyone explain how syntax elements such as { } are a net win? This looks like they've tuned the syntax to not scare anyone off in the first week, at the expense of an economy of expression later.
Rob Pike once justified C syntax for its ability to survive pipes that mangled whitespace. That was then, this is now. To this old C programmer, anything that unnecessarily resembles C is ground glass in the eye.
Can anyone explain how syntax elements such as { } are a net win? This looks like they've tuned the syntax to not scare anyone off in the first week, at the expense of an economy of expression later.
Rob Pike once justified C syntax for its ability to survive pipes that mangled whitespace. That was then, this is now. To this old C programmer, anything that unnecessarily resembles C is ground glass in the eye.