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		foldr on April 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang And what prevents you using them this way in Go? Just make a package and export a constructor function that does the validation.

Tomis02 on May 7, 2022 [–]

I think that was the author's point. You _can_ use them this way but it's a hassle and most people don't do it. The language itself doesn't protect you against zero-initialisation errors, even though it could.

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