Wouldn't this be more a job for 'eg' instead?

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On Jan 23, 2018 2:03 PM, "Chris Hopkins" <cbehopk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm tidying up some code and I think this would be a great use for gofmt's
> rewrite capabilities, but I can't make it work. I have some code where
> error checking is missing.
> In the code every instance of Set returns an error value that is not
> checked, so I assumed I could write:
>
> gofmt -w -r 'a.Set(b,c) -> err:=a.Set(b,c)\nif err != nil{log.Fatal("Set
> Error",err)}'
>
> and (for example) this would change:
> x.Set(bob,fred)
> to:
> err := x.Set(bob,fred)
> if err != nil{log.Fatal("Set Error",err)}
>
> (Actual error handling removed for simplicity of example)
>
> Before I crack out sed or perl, any suggestions for if this is possible
> the "correct" way?
>
> In a follow up question, I've come across go IDEs which allow you to do
> things like automatically rename handler receivers to be consistent across
> a type. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be possible to do this with gofmt
> out of the box, as rewrite rules can't target specific types that I know
> of. Is this actually possible?
>
> I guess a further question is, while I have found some examples of gofmt
> rules, they seem to be quite thin on the ground, is anyone aware of a good
> collection of examples?
>
> Regards
>
> Chris
>
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