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by mike_hearn 3847 days ago
"Readability reviews" at Google are somewhat notorious for imposing fairly arbitrary style choices extremely rigidly, for instance 80 characters per line (woe betide you if even one line in a 5000 line patch is 81 characters...). It doesn't sound so surprising to me that the people behind such a process might have decided that one of Go's primary selling points is 'confusing', given that the Go authors appear to believe their colleagues can't handle a brilliant language!