On Wed, 10 May 2017 10:05:56 -0700 (PDT)
Zachary Kaplan wrote:
> can somebody please explain to me when a function
> should to return a string as opposed to, say a []byte? thanks
>
Just a few examples.
Strings can be keys in map[string]something, []byte can't be a key due
to them are non compara
in golang, strings are immutable. thus, if i want to modify a string in
place, i'll need to cast or copy each element from the string to a similar
but mutable data structure. this seems inefficient for simple command line
programs that take input from stdin and access it through os.Args. can
so
