Capitalization for common initialisms?

[bufdev]

I actually might be against this, I like that id maps to Id, urlmaps to Url, etc, but there's an issue that was filed over at protocolbuffers/protobuf#1321 so it's at least worth a discussion - any thoughts on changing the generator to output capitalizations for https://github.com/golang/lint/blob/master/lint.go#L719 ?

[dsymonds]

No, we won't do this. There's a never-ending list, we'll get it wrong, and it's simpler to stick with the current mechanical translation. We don't hold machine-generated code to the same high standard as human-written code.

[sleaze]

But humans have to then consume and interact with this non-idiomatic machine-generated code.

It's not a never ending list - just put the initialisms from golint.

Refusing to acknowledge and / or fix this defect only ensures and forces that things continue to be generated in an ugly, non-compliant way, needlessly.

[manishrjain]

FWIW, I think Go linter should relax its rules on ID, URL etc. being capitalized.

[yaronsumel]

you can use github.com/gogo/protobuf

message C {
	optional int64 size = 1 [(gogoproto.customname) = "MySize"];
}

type C struct {
	MySize		*int64
}

[sleaze]

Thanks @yaronsumel , will give it a try.