Go’s best-kept secret: executable examples — Bitfield Consulting
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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.
  • whou@lemmy.mlMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    it’s weird that this is such an awesome and unique feature that I’ve never seen mentioned in any tutorial.

    I certainly wonder how many people wrote example documentation while having no idea this feature existed… I know I almost was one of them.

    • austinOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I agree it’s unique and not really talked about. It kinda reminds me of Elixir’s doctest