On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 5:13 PM Trig <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> And I did it again... posted from another gmail account by accident, and my
> post is forever in 'approval status', lol. Basically what Robert here said.
>
> On Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 9:53:56 AM UTC-5, Robert Engels wrote:
>>
>> You need pointers to strings if you need a nil value to be represented which
>> is often the case in databases.
That's a very expensive way to represent a simple boolean value.
type String struct {
S string
Valid bool
}
is a value of the same size as a slice is, so passing it around has
the same cost with no additional allocations.
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