On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, at 7:48 PM, Jakob Borg wrote: > On 16 Jan 2019, at 15:42, Victor Giordano <vitucho3...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> As far i can get to understand the english language (i'm not a native >> speaker), the "er" seems to denotes or describe things in a more "active >> way" (the thing that they actually do by itself), and the "able" describes >> things in a more "passive way" (the thing that you can "ask it/his/her" to >> do). Do you find this appreciation correct? > > This was a mental stumbling block for me for a long time when I started out > with Go. For me, the "Reader" is the one who calls Read(), so an io.Reader > seemed like the opposite of what I wanted. I would have better understood it > as io.Readee. It works out better if I see the Reader as some sort of > intermediate entity that affects reads on whatever the underlying thing is > you want to read from… Or if I see it as just an interface-indicating > nonsense suffix, like a capital-I prefix…
I had similar problems at first and I am an native English speaker. I now think of it like this: a Reader is something that can Read, just as a Logger is something that can Log All the best, 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.
