Writer? Encoder? Putter? I am creating a library for writing certain data objects (hence MyStruct) to an io.Writer. I was trying to find how Go's standard library typically names interfaces like that so that I could stick to the conventional naming. Seems that the JSON <https://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/#Encoder> package uses Encoder and Encode. The CSV <https://golang.org/pkg/encoding/csv/#Writer> package uses Writer and Write. I see that the Encode naming is more common in the encoding/... packages, but these usually encode general values (interface{}) and not specific types (like MyStruct).
What would be an idiomatic naming/API design for a case like this? What makes CSV a writer and JSON an encoder? -- 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/0467f446-28a3-486a-ac38-fd4dcbd5e1fbn%40googlegroups.com.
