[go-nuts] Re: Proposal: auto return String instead of []byte if requested

2020-09-12 Thread Amnon
People tend to use strings far too much. Does tlsCert in this code really need to be a string? Probably not. But it it does really need to be a string, then converting to a sting as you have done is quite straight forward. And explicit is better than implicit. The beauty of Go is its

[go-nuts] Re: Proposal: auto return String instead of []byte if requested

2020-09-11 Thread Volker Dobler
Please no. This is just begging for problems. A simple type conversion is 1 (one!) line and pretty clear. Once you open this can of worms someone would like to have a []rune and then automatic conversions from int32 to int and 6 month later you have a JavaScript like nonsense language just