Order slices of strings

[domgreen]

One thing that I often find in style guides is the desire to have lists of objects in order to help with readability.

Would be great if we could add a feature to order strings in slices when they are defined.

eg.

names := []string{
  "bob",
  "claire",
  "alice",
}

goes to:

names := []string{
  "alice",
  "bob",
  "claire",
}

[mvdan]

Thanks for the suggestion! Is your thinking that this would apply to all lists, or just some of them?

If this applies to all of them, I can imagine this meaning trouble. For example, what if a developer is keeping a particular order for some reason? Like:

days := []string{
    "Monday",
    "Tuesday",
    ...
}

We also don't want to add more flags beyond what gofmt has, so I don't know how we could make this apply to only some lists. Perhaps a comment, but then we get into ugly directives like //go:sorted.

[domgreen]

Yeah, I'm not sure it can be applied everywhere tbh and don't like the idea of the comments. Will close the issue as I think it's something I'm going to just have to keep in the style guide. We do have a caveat on it that points out things like your days example.