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Go’s best-kept secret: executable examples

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Go’s best-kept secret: executable examples

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Did you know that Go lets us provide executable code examples as part of our documentation? It’s pretty neat. Let’s take a tour of this useful feature and see how it works.

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Do you know any projects that utilize this, so I can see an example implementation of this?

The sort package in the standard library uses testable examples (source code).

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