On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 6:24 AM Tushar Rawat <tusharrawat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have seen few places where functions are returning struct as a value (for > instance time package, time is always returned as a value) and however at > some places folks prefer to return the pointers to struct instead of the copy. > > Which one should be idiomatic approach, and when should we prefer other once ?
There are no hard and fast rules. There are some guidelines at https://go.dev/wiki/CodeReviewComments#pass-values and https://go.dev/wiki/CodeReviewComments#receiver-type. 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. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAOyqgcXrxRK1FtbHtc5TaS9SK%3DyW8EqezXQ4B1pqY-PLeqCUcg%40mail.gmail.com.
