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I can understand where you're coming from since I like static typing as well, but I don't think what you're saying is fair. It's good to be able to statically identify certain clas…

1. Flash sites won't be using the features in question. 2. Flash sites should die a horrible horrible death.

I was considering their claim that it's easy to turn on but difficult to turn off to be a design flaw.

The H2G2 sent queries over the sub-etha-net.

The Go team has actually reacted to a lot of feedback. They just haven't made sweeping changes to the language willy nilly at request.

Essentially, you are correct. Lvalues can have their address taken while rvalues cannot. However, the Go spec doesn't speak in terms of lvalue vs rvalue, it speaks in terms of the …

I'd like to point out that Go also started as a personal project (a 20% time project at Google) that later got picked up by the company, so your statement that the same is the case…