Trig,
I'm very curious why you want to use a pointer to a string? Since strings
are immutable, and already are like "pointers" internally, I have rarely,
if ever, used *string in go. What is it that you achieve by doing this?
- Jake
On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 10:33:31 PM UTC-4, Trig wrote:
>
> I posted this question the other day and don't see it (may have posted
> from another gmail account and it's still pending approval)... so here I am
> again.
>
> Let's say I have something like below:
> type (
> Person struct {
> FirstName *string
> }
> )
>
> Usually, I see something like the following when assigning:
> fn := "John"
> _ = Person{
> FirstName: &fn,
> }
>
> Would something like the following be alright and acceptable practice:
> _ = Person{
> FirstName: pString("John")
> }
>
>
> func pString(content string) *string {
> return &content
> }
>
>
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