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sort: use By as a type name in struct definition #6708

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donovanhide opened this issue Nov 2, 2013 · 3 comments
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sort: use By as a type name in struct definition #6708

donovanhide opened this issue Nov 2, 2013 · 3 comments
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In the planet sorter example, on line 38, the By type is defined but not used:

http://tip.golang.org/src/pkg/sort/example_keys_test.go#L38

Replace:

by      func(p1, p2 *Planet) bool // Closure used in the Less method.

with:

by     By // Closure used in the Less method.
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robpike commented Nov 3, 2013

Comment 1:

It's used several times in the example function. It could be used in the struct
definition as well, but does it help much to do so?

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Comment 2:

Apart from less keystrokes, I agree, there is no very compelling reason to do so :-)
It was pleasant to see an example of function literals and type conversions in this bit
of code; it is a slightly under documented aspect of Go, apart from:
http://golang.org/doc/codewalk/functions/
Maybe a blog post on the subject would be good?

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robpike commented Nov 4, 2013

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Status changed to WontFix.

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