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48: Panicking Panicking in Go should be used sparingly. We have seen two prominent cases, one to signal a programmer error and another where our application fails to create a mandatory dependency. 49: Ignoring when to wrap an error In general, the two main use cases for error wrapping are the following: Adding additional context to an error Marking an error as a specific error if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("bar failed: %w", err) } This code wraps the source error to add additional context without having to create another error type. ...

42: Not knowing which type of receiver to use In Go, we can attach either a value or a pointer receiver to a method. With a value receiver, Go makes a copy of the value and passes it to the method. Any changes to the object remain local to the method. The original object remains unchanged. On the other hand, with a pointer receiver, Go passes the address of an object to the method. Intrinsically, it remains a copy, but we only copy a pointer, not the object itself (passing by reference doesn’t exist in Go). Any modifications to the receiver are done on the original object. ...

36: Not understanding the concept of a rune The len built-in function applied on a string doesn’t return the number of characters; it returns the number of bytes. What if we want to get the number of runes in a string, not the number of bytes? How we can do this depends on the encoding. In the previous example, because we assigned a string literal to s, we can use the unicode/utf8 package: ...

2 Unnecessary nested code 能够提前返回的特殊判定就提前返回 if xxx { // .... return err }else{ // do X } 总是能够写为 if xxx{ return err } // do X Make expected execution flow clear 5 Interface pollution Quote The bigger the interface, the weaker the abstraction. ...

17 Creating confusion with octal literals In Go, an integer literal starting with 0 is considered an octal integer (base 8). Note the integer literal representations in Golang: Binary - Uses a 0b or 0B prefix (for example, 0b100 is equal to 4 in base 10) Octal - Uses a 0 or 0o prefix (for example, 0o10 is equal 8 in base 10) Hexadecimal - Uses an 0x or 0X prefix (for example, 0xF is equal to 15 in base 10) Imaginary - Uses an i suffix (for example, 3i) 20 Not understanding slice length and capacity In Go, a slice is backed by an array. That means the slice’s data is stored contiguously in an array data structure. A slice also handles the logic of adding an element if the backing array is full or shrinking the backing array if it’s almost empty. ...