On 2020-09-11 19:08, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > The way Go works, ioutil.ReadFile is compiled with the io/ioutil > package. It can't change based on how it is called. So it is always > going to return []byte.
Ok. I figured it might save an allocation as well if the coder made clear their intention prior. I thought it may not be worth the effort, even if it were straight forward. Thanks for the consideration. -- 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/30d863c3-c702-2f26-3b33-d66f4add4e40%40gmail.com.