Actually, my real opinion is that I like these default argument values, I
also like concise asserts at the head of functions that automatically
sanitise data. But they cost quite a lot which is likely why Go doesn't
have them. Default arguments are the least useful of the two, asserts have
a much greater effect on correctness which is why many functional languages
let you set such conditions in a function.
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 09:44:17 UTC+2, Masoud Ghorbani wrote:
>
> Your opinion is like to say all of the python application should rethink
> and re-write their structure because they used default values. I think
> having default values for parameters is just a feature which will make
> codebase readable and smaller than before.
>
> On Thursday, August 23, 2018 at 4:38:23 AM UTC+4:30, Louki Sumirniy wrote:
>>
>> There is a default value for everything in Go. Null. 0, "" and nil. As
>> someone else said, if you want a parameter to be optional you probably need
>> ...interface{} and then infer no parameter as 'use the default'. Going a
>> little further, you can build default values into a constructor function
>> for an interfaced type.
>>
>> Oh, probably the neatest solution is to make a struct that lets you input
>> the parameters either in-order or with labels instead. Then you can use
>> &TypeName{} to mean 'use defaults' or whichever parameters are not
>> specified get automatically set to default, either unlabeled and ordered
>> such that the values that will be asserted to defaults are not the first
>> ones in a struct literal used to feed parameters in. Or make the names nice
>> and concise so they aren't troublesome to add (and if your code is going to
>> often use defaults, probably you won't even have to specify many values
>> very often anyway).
>>
>> Assertions and labeled parameters are nice features but they don't really
>> save you that much time. I would suggest that it's more likely you need to
>> rethink the structure of your application and make slightly different named
>> parameters for those calls that will use defaults for specific parameters.
>>
>> Another thing is that you can make null variables imply the use of
>> defaults, then you only need to put 'nil' '""' or '0' into these parameters
>> and the code will test and fill them automatically. Or if null isn't handy,
>> you can define sentinel values for a type that indicate 'use defaults'.
>>
>> On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 14:39:37 UTC+2, Masoud Ghorbani wrote:
>>>
>>> Why there isn't function argument default value in Golang explicitly
>>> like Typescript and Python?
>>>
>>
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