Re: [OT] Lua community and Go language

[Gé Weijers <ge@...>]

The newline rule in Go is fairly simple: the language definition uses semicolons as statement terminators, like C, but the compiler inserts them automatically if the last token on a line is one that could end a statement, e.g. literals, ")", "}", ","break", "++", etc.

You can safely break up lines after a comma, opening bracket, opening parenthesis, or operator.

fun(a,

      b+

      c,

      &thing{

          1,

          "Foo",

      })

Gé

On Monday, August 5, 2013, Sven Olsen wrote:

 

 As best as I can tell; Go's parser will throw an error anytime you do something with newlines that makes it vaguely nervousness -- effectively a much more aggressive version of the "Ambiguous syntax" error from 5.1.  And this ends up being a perpetual source of small annoyances.

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Gé