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[-] Solemarc@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

As far as I was aware Go didn't have enums and this

const()

Pattern is just a weird thing people do because it behaves like an enum?

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

You are correct, Go doesn’t have enums. The const thing is a widely accepted pattern for approximating enums.

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