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Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide(alexedwards.net)
25 points by yurivish 4 days ago | 8 comments
qezz 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I was surprised to see literally invalid names in the "bad" section, e.g. "Cannot start with a digit". Why even presenting this if it's rejected by the compiler?

nasretdinov 19 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I like this article — short, accurate (which is somehow not a given these days...) and useful, just like Go language itself.

nacozarina an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this seems anachronistic, written for a human artisan laboring over each naming choice directly

a modern approach would be a condensed ruleset passed to the ai model for the code it generates, and it should be straightforward to substitute different rulesets if you have a different taste in parochialisms.

andersonpico a minute ago | parent | next [-]

Talking to AI exclusively has damaged your brain, get a grip you fucking retard

johneth 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> this seems anachronistic, written for a human artisan laboring over each naming choice directly

Some of us want to write well thought-through code, rather than letting an AI just spew poorly thought-through unmaintainable shit.

piekvorst 40 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

You can use this article to guide your choice of rulesets. And you still have to exert some artisan labor to develop any taste.

Parochialism here is saying “just use AI” in disguise.

red_admiral an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Another of mine: don't name a struct after an interface method that it's supposed to implement. If you have a package linearalgebra, then making a custom error type linearalgebra.LinearAlgebraError is too "chatty" but linearalgebra.Error will cause you pain if it implements "Error string()", as it probably should, and you decide to make a linearalgebra.MatrixSingularError that wraps a linearalgebra.Error to "inherit" its methods.

In the end, it ended up called linearalgebra.Err .

P.S Alex Edwards' "let's go" and "let's go further" are great books to get someone up to date with golang, just keep an eye on features that are newer than the book(s).

DauntingPear7 19 minutes ago | parent [-]

The booms receive regular updates. I got an email about an update to Let’s Go Further on 3/12 for Go 1.26