Yes and once that was clear it quickly became familiar but to people from other languages (a mix between Java and C perhaps) it can be confusing.
At first it bummed me out that these where special but it is easy to get used to it. fre 21 okt. 2016 kl 16:01 skrev Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org>: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Henrik Johansson <dahankz...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The confusion I have had is rather with nilability. > > A channel can be nil even though it is not explicitly a pointer. > > It's a basic design decision in Go that every type has a zero value. > For the "reference types" (pointer, channel, map, slice, interface) > that zero value is named "nil". > > Ian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
