[Thaxll]

No Safe navigator: require 4 lines of code

No ternary support: require 6 lines of code

I'm glad Go does not have those, it makes the code less readable. It's only useful for simple operation and very often chained and abused.

[inopinatus]

I very nearly got this ternary delight into FreeBSD src:

    if ((Lflag ? chown : lchown)(p->fts_accpath, s->st_uid, -1))
            (void)printf(" not modified: %s\n",
                strerror(errno));

which relies on the identical signature of chown(2) and lchown(2) syscalls.

[takeda]

This reminds me of the posts from 15 years ago saying why not having clipboard on iPhone was better.

[philosopher1234]

Your point being that there’s no such thing as features that are better left out? Hard to believe

[takeda]

My point is that people develop attachment to things they own and use, and it's harder to be objective.

[catlifeonmars]

Well, obviously. GP used the phrase “compact and pretty”. It’s a bit of a stretch to interpret that as an objective statement. The charitable interpretation is that GP meant it to be subjective.

Edit: I got confused which post you were replying to. My apologies.

[philosopher1234]

This is true of any defense ever made. Doesn’t say anything specific to this argument.

[userbinator]

I really don't understand the hate that the ternary operator gets. If you know how to read if/else, you know how to read ?/:.