[why-el]

Ah, I think there should be a formula that spills out how many minutes will pass before language discussion descends to syntax assassination.

I understand your pain, but this is nowhere near a real issue for systems that Go is designed to help build.

I mean, in the thread that announces a new version of a language whose designers made it abundantly clear that it is intended to solve Google's problems, the top comment is about how to interpolate strings? I think they made a very good move by ignoring most syntax requests (There are a lot) and move on. Even better is their decision to harmonize formatting and build the formatter right into the language.

Syntax is extremely overrated, and evidence for it has been provided years ago. [1]

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ProgrammingLanguagesAnInterpreterBase...

Edit: typos.

[thescrewdriver]

> I understand your pain, but this is nowhere near a real issue for systems that Go is designed to help build.

I spend most of my day designing and coding the sorts of systems which Go was designed to help build. I'll agree that this isn't a major issue, but it is affecting whether or not I actually enjoy using Go.

[laumars]

I appreciate something like this is best served in the compiler, but would it not be possible to build your own function that provides this functionality?

[NateDad]

Sorta impossible. You can't suck values out of the current context, even with reflection. You always would need to pass values into a function, in which case you might as well use fmt.

[laumars]

I suspected that might have been the case but I haven't played around with reflection enough personally.

Shame :(