Re: [go-nuts] %v display of nil map

2023-01-26 Thread Andrew Athan
I should have RTFMed, but even there, the nil display issue is not highlighted :) Thanks. It seemed odd that there wasn't already a way. It might be good to highlight this feature in the right places. I'm not sure if golangdocs.com is the official easy on-ramp for golang but if so, at https://gola

Re: [go-nuts] %v display of nil map

2023-01-25 Thread 'Dan Kortschak' via golang-nuts
On Wed, 2023-01-25 at 07:21 -0800, Andrew Athan wrote: > I'm sure I'm not the first to say this, but here's my +1: > > It seems wrong to me that golang displays nil-valued reference types > as an empty instance of the type with no indication that the > reference is nil. > > E.g. > ``` > var m map[s

[go-nuts] %v display of nil map

2023-01-25 Thread Andrew Athan
I'm sure I'm not the first to say this, but here's my +1: It seems wrong to me that golang displays nil-valued reference types as an empty instance of the type with no indication that the reference is nil. E.g. ``` var m map[string]string fmt.Printf("%+v",m) ``` displays as "map[]" I think it