Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide

(alexedwards.net)

25 points | by yurivish 3 days ago

4 comments

  • qezz 3 minutes ago
    I was surprised to see literally invalid names in the "bad" section, e.g. "Cannot start with a digit". Why even presenting this if it's rejected by the compiler?
  • nasretdinov 15 minutes ago
    I like this article — short, accurate (which is somehow not a given these days...) and useful, just like Go language itself.
  • nacozarina 49 minutes ago
    this seems anachronistic, written for a human artisan laboring over each naming choice directly

    a modern approach would be a condensed ruleset passed to the ai model for the code it generates, and it should be straightforward to substitute different rulesets if you have a different taste in parochialisms.

    • johneth 33 minutes ago
      > this seems anachronistic, written for a human artisan laboring over each naming choice directly

      Some of us want to write well thought-through code, rather than letting an AI just spew poorly thought-through unmaintainable shit.

    • piekvorst 36 minutes ago
      You can use this article to guide your choice of rulesets. And you still have to exert some artisan labor to develop any taste.

      Parochialism here is saying “just use AI” in disguise.

  • red_admiral 1 hour ago
    Another of mine: don't name a struct after an interface method that it's supposed to implement. If you have a package linearalgebra, then making a custom error type linearalgebra.LinearAlgebraError is too "chatty" but linearalgebra.Error will cause you pain if it implements "Error string()", as it probably should, and you decide to make a linearalgebra.MatrixSingularError that wraps a linearalgebra.Error to "inherit" its methods.

    In the end, it ended up called linearalgebra.Err .

    P.S Alex Edwards' "let's go" and "let's go further" are great books to get someone up to date with golang, just keep an eye on features that are newer than the book(s).

    • DauntingPear7 15 minutes ago
      The booms receive regular updates. I got an email about an update to Let’s Go Further on 3/12 for Go 1.26