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by amp108 2562 days ago
> But even more significant is that the Go authors cannot seem to grasp the importance of pre-existing conventions. Almost every language I've used in the past decade allows and encourages the variable, Class, CONSTANT convention.

What "pre-existing conventions" do you see in the Go code that you've had to refactor? The fact that conventions from Java or C++ aren't the same simply reinforces the fact that Go is a different language, and that's A Good Thing.