You need pointers to strings if you need a nil value to be represented which is often the case in databases.
> On Jun 4, 2020, at 9:30 AM, Saksham Saxena <onte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yep perfectly fine. MongoDB Driver for Go also uses such a wrapper at many > places where it takes a string as an argument and returns a pointer to it > which is required internally. Not really sure why use a pointer to strings in > Go because they're immutable, but I guess to reach their own. > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/17f2c250-ea5f-41fc-ac1b-0890a69f593b%40googlegroups.com. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/D0E3E25A-A399-4CB4-809E-EC2216C782AE%40ix.netcom.com.
