And I did it again... posted from another gmail account by accident, and my post is forever in 'approval status', lol. Basically what Robert here said.
On Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 9:53:56 AM UTC-5, Robert Engels wrote: > > You need pointers to strings if you need a nil value to be represented > which is often the case in databases. > > > On Jun 4, 2020, at 9:30 AM, Saksham Saxena <ont...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > Yep perfectly fine. MongoDB Driver for Go also uses such a wrapper at > many places where it takes a string as an argument and returns a pointer to > it which is required internally. Not really sure why use a pointer to > strings in Go because they're immutable, but I guess to reach their own. > > > > -- > > 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 golan...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/17f2c250-ea5f-41fc-ac1b-0890a69f593b%40googlegroups.com. > > > > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/b52446c0-8750-4f58-818c-ab985962ca25%40googlegroups.com.
