Yeah, I agree with Marvin. "func" is also needed for anonymous functions
and defining function types. This would be quite weird (and probably not
easily parseable):
add := (a, b int) int { return a+b }
type adder (a, b int) int
Most importantly for me, explicit syntax for this allows me to easily use
simple tools like grep or Ctrl-F to find function definitions -- I can just
do a text-search for "func Foo". In C and other languages that's hard, you
have to search for "{startOfLine}{returnType} Foo". But without regex
search it's hard to search for startOfLine, and often you don't know the
returnType.
I believe another reason is that the Go language designers decided that
> every top-level syntax element begins with a keyword: package, import,
> type, const, var, func. Perhaps this is just for convenience of
> parsing, but it greatly simplifies human parsing (readability) as well.
>
> ...Marvin
>
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