> However, your if statement is unidiomatic and quite unlike how you would normally write that particular logic in Go. If you really want to make a fair comparison, you might consider writing it in the way that Go is normally written, not the way that someone familiar with another C-style language might write the code if the ternary operator was taken from them.
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> the parens are unnecessary
and they didn't just write that because reasons, which would also be the why they commented an other half dozen times since then but just couldn't come around to showing "how you would normally write that particular logic in Go" because it would take all of 5 minutes.
