[maxiepoo]

Yes and in Go (and hopefully all curly-brace languages of the future) this is actually a syntax error, you need the braces:

  if (a < b) {
     a = b;
  }

[TylerE]

The thing I don't get...if braces are mandatory (Good), why keep the now completely, unambiguously, irrelevant () around the cond?

[kyrra]

If you ran the code through gofmt, it would remove the () around the cond for you. I code go in SublimeText with GoSublime. On every save it runs the file through gofmt and reformats it for me. Keeps my code looking pretty with very little effort.

[wtbob]

You don't need those parens in Go, and go fmt will in fact remove them/

[CasualSuperman]

They're actually not required in Go.

[gnur]

And you don't need the semicolons!