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Go’s best-kept secret: executable examples (bitfieldconsulting.com)

submitted 2 years ago by austin to c/golang

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

There's also Testable Examples in Go from the official Go blog.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I have not seen this before. Thanks for sharing. Do you know any projects that utilize this, so I can see an example implementation of this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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).

[–] RandomDevOpsDude 2 points 2 years ago

going to

func Echo doc Example

(and many more)

[–] austin 1 points 2 years ago

The go stdlib uses it a lot. For example, the strings package