Personally, I think this leads to very unreadable code, for no real benefit. If a nil-pointer dereference happens unexpectedly, that's always a bug. A panic is the correct signal to tell me about that bug, so I can go ahead and fix it. So, making my code less readable to get less robust code seems like a lose-lose proposition to me.
Of course, people can always choose to write/use whatever static checker they want. I'm not opposed to this existing. I just don't think it should be in the compiler or in `go vet`. On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:01 PM 'Michael Toy' via golang-nuts < golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I barely understand Go, so this is likely a stupid idea. Since Go uses nil > for a lot of things, lots of things can be nil. > > I am not a huge fan of the null safe accessor. ( > https://github.com/golang/go/issues/42847 ) > > I am a huge fan of the compiler telling me the places where I have not > checked for nil ... It took me a while to get used to languages which do > this, but now I can't imagine living without it. > > Is it crazy to wish for ... > > if x == nil { > // this does not produce an error because x is known not to be nil > x.interfaceFunc() > } > // this DOES produce an error/warning if y is possibly nil > y.interfaceFunc() > > -- > 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/5a700cd9-9274-4756-80a6-9d322232afebn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/5a700cd9-9274-4756-80a6-9d322232afebn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAEkBMfGs32E3Z-ibVqqkpcRMckGFpLwQ-9cEkM9VciXUcz7WWw%40mail.gmail.com.
