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cmd/gofmt: don't remove spaces when combining binary and unary * #40288

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peidaqi opened this issue Jul 18, 2020 · 3 comments
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cmd/gofmt: don't remove spaces when combining binary and unary * #40288

peidaqi opened this issue Jul 18, 2020 · 3 comments
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peidaqi commented Jul 18, 2020

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go1.14.4

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I understand that gofmt will try to remove spaces between operator and operand, so that it's easier to tell the association. However, this creates weird situations when the star operator is involved with pointers. For example:

x := 10
p1 := &x
p2 := &x
fmt.Println(10 * *p1 * *p2)

works as expected, but if we add a 1 in the last line:

x := 10
p1 := &x
p2 := &x
fmt.Println(10**p1**p2 + 1)

where the 10 **p1 **p2 would be very easily confused as an exponential operator - which golang doesn't have.
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CC @griesemer

@ianlancetaylor ianlancetaylor changed the title gofmt shouldn't remove spaces when there's pointer invovled cmd/gofmt: don't remove spaces when combining binary and unary * Jul 19, 2020
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ALTree commented Jul 19, 2020 •
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This is #2098, in particular see #2098 (comment). At the time, it was closed as WAI.

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If we rewrite your example as desired, we get:

fmt.Println(10 * *p1 * *p2 + 1)

which is better for the multiplications, but worse for the addition as it lost its difference from the multiplications which have higher precedence. As has been pointed out above, this was discussed almost 10 years ago and we decided to leave it alone. The better solution is to introduce parentheses to increase readability when it's problematic. Also, this is not a very common situation.

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