On 16 Jan 2019, at 15:42, Victor Giordano <vitucho3...@gmail.com<mailto:vitucho3...@gmail.com>> wrote:
As far i can get to understand the english language (i'm not a native speaker), the "er" seems to denotes or describe things in a more "active way" (the thing that they actually do by itself), and the "able" describes things in a more "passive way" (the thing that you can "ask it/his/her" to do). Do you find this appreciation correct? This was a mental stumbling block for me for a long time when I started out with Go. For me, the "Reader" is the one who calls Read(), so an io.Reader seemed like the opposite of what I wanted. I would have better understood it as io.Readee. It works out better if I see the Reader as some sort of intermediate entity that affects reads on whatever the underlying thing is you want to read from… Or if I see it as just an interface-indicating nonsense suffix, like a capital-I prefix… //jb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
