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Gotcha #1: JSON Memory Leak ◼ JavaScript Object Notation ◼ Lightweight data-interchange format ◼ Easy to read and write – even in GO!
◼ You’re using the JSON package wrong
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Gotcha #1: JSON Memory Leak
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Gotcha #2: Static Functions ◼ Is Go Object-Oriented? Yes and no ◼ Object-Oriented programming style ◼ Methods are more generic than in
C++ or Java ◼ Function of uninitiated structure?
Static function
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Gotcha #2: Static Functions
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Gotcha #3: Buffered Channels != Queues ◼ Communicating Sequential Processes ◼ Channels – First class values ◼ Channels – Unbuffered or buffered ◼ Buffered channels block too
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Gotcha #3: Channels != Queues
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Gotcha #4: Don’t Panic! ◼ Errors – The idiomatic way of dealing
with abnormal conditions ◼ Panic – Program cannot continue
execution ◼ Recover – Regain control from a
panic goroutine ◼ Recover only from within goroutine
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Gotcha #4: Don’t Panic!
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Gotcha #5: Type Magic – Type Overloading ◼ Go is a strictly typed language ◼ Variables can only carry values of the
type they were declared to be ◼ Composite types ("unnamed types"):
Building blocks for new types ◼ Declare types by binding an identifier to
an existing underlying type
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Gotcha #5: Type Magic – Type Overloading
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Gotcha #5: Type Magic – Type Casting ◼ Go is a strictly typed language ◼ Values can be cast into other types ◼ Casting does not always work ◼ Casting fails silently
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Gotcha #5: Type Magic – Type Casting
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Go gopher drawings provided by https://github.com/egonelbre/gophers, under CC0. The Go gopher was designed by Renee French. The Gopher character design is licensed under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attributions license.
