[azangru]

Oh; in that case the lowly Javascript/typescript does this so much cleaner with the explicit `export` keyword. "Explicit is better than implicit."

[x0re4x]

Go language is explicit: identifiers starting with a capital letter are exported.

https://go.dev/ref/spec#Exported_identifiers

[lanstin]

I find “locality of scope” to be extremely significant fact about a variable, and so I like seeing signs of it at one glance. The . as well for everything tied in a class and the go convention of shorter names for function locals also support this awarenes.