Also, you might enjoy my GopherCon talk on nil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynoY2xz-F8s
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 4:52 PM Dan Kortschak <dan.kortsc...@adelaide.edu.au> wrote: > This is explained in the FAQ: https://golang.org/doc/faq#nil_error > > On Tue, 2017-11-14 at 16:37 -0800, Travis Beauvais wrote: > > https://play.golang.org/p/76gIgzXgcS > > > > Why is err not nil when a is? > > > > Our theory is that err is a pointer to a nil pointer so technically > > not > > nil. We would have assumed that a pointer to a nil pointer would be > > nil > > though. Why is that that not the case? > > > > By the way, we don't need help with this. We found a workaround and > > are > > satisfied with that. Just looking for details on why this is the case > > for > > our own knowledge as it tripped us up for a while. > > > > -- > 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.
