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Yes, but that isn't necessarily a feature of option types. Is it the case that similar sugar for the tiresome Go pattern couldn't achieve similar benefits?
by RedComet 2y ago
Yes, but that isn't necessarily a feature of option types. Is it the case that similar sugar for the tiresome Go pattern couldn't achieve similar benefits?
- Mawr 2y agoPerhaps, but there have been several proposals along those lines and nobody seems capable of figuring out a sensible implementation. A funny drawback of the current Go design that a Result type would solve is the need to return zero values of all the declared function return types along with the error: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21182 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21182.