Adventures of a GoLang Developer and former WordPress Engineer
This solution had me literally working on-again off-again for a full week. One of the main reasons it took so long was I was trying to write a wrapper to simplify because I find the reflect package in Go so unintuitive and hard-to-work-with. But it turns out that trying to write a wrapper around an …
In summary I am proposing the PHP leverage the use statement like the PHP trait does, but with a class modifier to allow for automatic delegation of method calls to contained instances.
Also I am proposing we leverage the disambiguation syntax that is already available for traits, and extend it in a few ways that traits do not address such as:
as to allow for renaming from the property names for delegate classes,include or exclude to allow including or excluding specific methods, anduse method to allow for including specific methods.
Go is a great language — probably one of the best — but it is not without its warts. Let me illustrate one aspect of Go that is really useful, but also one of the issues that using that feature causes (aka an experience report.) Pro One of the many great features in Go is …
One of the niftier aspects of programming in Go is you can create named types derived out of existing types. For example, let’s consider storing and passing a URL. Depending on their needs programmers get to choose either a string or a class to represent URLs in many others languages. Often times programmers will choose …
All-in-all, I am a big proponent of the errors-as-values approach to error handling in Go. I definitely agree with the general wisdom of handling errors when and where they occur, and not delegating them using exceptions. So this post is not about how many people find needed to handle errors through code an annoyance. To …
One of the things I love about Go and find to be a strong supporter of serendipitous interface standardization is Go’s implicitly declared interfaces. However, there are times you really, really want to explicitly declare an interface, such as when you have a larger interface and you want your IDE and/or the compiler to tell …
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PHP implements composition (vs. inheritance) of object class properties and methods to other classes using delegation. Go on the other hand implements composition with type embedding. Read this post to learn about the differences and to appreciate the benefits of Go’s approach compared to that of PHP.
Photo by Cytonn Photography on Unsplash #Update When I wrote this I did not remember that the draft design for Go2 generics chose to use the name “Contracts” for a new language feature to provide a Go-idiomatic response to generics. Still, I stand by my use of the name contracts for this proposal as I …
Photo by Louise Lyshøj on Unsplash This is a GoLang Experience Report. …but you cannot define the rows parameter as type []RowInserter because []interface{} won’t match it, even though RowInserter is itself an interface. Background I am relatively new to programming Go, but I have been developing software professionally in a variety of programming languages …
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