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by AnimalMuppet 1314 days ago
To someone coming from C, C++, or Java, the idea that a newline would change the meaning is completely novel. And Go has the same "flavor" as those languages, so most people would expect Go to behave the same unless the difference were called out very explicitly.
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I think the absence of semicolons is a pretty big call-out.