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Not, it's very pragmatic, based on a parser need (to make it simpler), and it's well explained in their docs.

Not to mention that's a well known style, has a lot of benefits (less wasted lines compared to the style that puts both brackets on empty lines, less potential for errors in than when you omit the brackets for a single statement), and, most importantly, puts and end to all bikeshedding.

Especially along with gofmt, go is a bikeshedding free language in regards to syntax.




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