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by natebrennand 4173 days ago
FWIW, the Golang core developers regret using the old UNIX conventions in packages. I don't think it's viable at this stage to take them back, but they do agree that it doesn't fit the language well.

http://gophercon.sourcegraph.com/post/83845316771/panel-disc...
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mseepgood 4173 days ago
I think he only regrets having used upper case names for constants (os.O_RDONLY), which is not idiomatic Go.
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Retra 4173 days ago
The keywords thetruthofthematter, notwithstanding, and depiteallobjections are kind of hilarious though.
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