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In 97.5% of case, the `nil` value of Go types follows the NullObject pattern. There's really just nil pointers that are still equivalent to `null`, and their a

In 97.5% of case, the `nil` value of Go types follows the NullObject pattern. There's really just nil pointers that are still equivalent to `null`, and their absence would be an abnormality, as there's no reason why a pointer couldn't have a nil representation.

lmm 13y ago
If one is to write robust programs it is useful to automatically enforce that there are no execution paths that set particular pointers to null.
skrebbel 13y ago
Just because "NullObject pattern" ends with "pattern" doesn't mean that it's usually a good idea.