On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 5:19 AM saurabh singh <saurab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there an alternative for nameof in golang.
> I don't want reflection magic.
> Use case is to avoid log messages, validation etc to go out of sync with code
> changes:
>
> func foo(correctParamName string) (interface{}, error){
> if len(correctParamName) == 0{
> return nil, errors.New("crypticParamNameFixedAfterCodeReview is
> empty")
> }
> }
>
> Much better with
> return nil, errors.New(nameof(crypticParamNameFixedAfterCodeReview) + " is
> empty") // compile error unless this is also changed to match the param name.
>
> Something as simple as nameof else it would be an overkill for the use case.
Sorry, Go does not provide any way to get the name of a variable at run time.
Ian
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