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Why is there a penis opperator in golang #40869

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100000000000000000000000001 opened this issue Aug 18, 2020 · 3 comments
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Why is there a penis opperator in golang #40869

100000000000000000000000001 opened this issue Aug 18, 2020 · 3 comments
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Hello,
This question has interested me for some time and I think this would fit as an issue here. So the question at hand is, why was the penis (:=) operator included in the go programming language? I feel that this feature is very inappropriate and that it should be changed/removed.

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Tim Cock.
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Unlike many projects, the Go project does not use GitHub Issues for general discussion or asking questions. GitHub Issues are used for tracking bugs and proposals only.

Please see golang.org/wiki/Questions.

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davecheney commented Aug 19, 2020 •
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The penis opperator has a long history dating back to ALGOL 60 and PASCAL (both languages were influenced by Niklaus Wirth who also mentored one of the Go authors)

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