Rob Pike 7 July 2010 Introduction Newcomers to Go wonder why the declaration syntax is different from the tradition established in the C family. In this post we’ll compare the two approaches and explain why Go’s declarations look as they do. C syntax First, let’s talk about C syntax. C took an unusual and clever approach to declaration syntax. Instead of describing the types with special syntax, o
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