ok. got it my thinking is 'b' is obvious choice, then why invent new name 'p' ?
On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 11:15 PM Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote: > It can be whatever you like: passedBuf, payload, putBuffer, param, > pointer, ... > > It does not have to represent any word after all. Naming is hard, but in > the case of a single argument it does not matter that much, so it could be > just a case of author's C habits: void *p for buffers. > > On Sat, Apr 6, 2019, 19:34 Santhosh T <santhosh.tek...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> seems my question is not clear. >> my question is regarding naming of variables. >> i know that single name variables in go is idiomatic. >> >> r for reader >> w for writer >> etc... >> >> Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) >> >> i dont get why argument is named 'p' instead of 'b'. >> there should be some reasoning. >> I dont get why 'p' is chosen as argument name instead of 'b'. >> >> thanks >> Santhosh >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 9:54 PM Philip Chapman <pchap...@pcsw.us> wrote: >> >>> p is the array of bytes that you want to fill with data read. The >>> method returns the count of the number of bytes read which may be any value >>> from zero to p's length. You must make multiple reads if the thing being >>> read from holds more data than your buffer array can hold. >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 9:16 AM Santhosh T <santhosh.tek...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> method in io.Reader interface is: >>>> Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) >>>> >>>> what does `p` stands for ? >>>> >>>> thanks >>>> Santhosh >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Philip A. Chapman >>> Java Software Development >>> Enterprise, Web, and Desktop >>> >> -- >> 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. >> > -- 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.
