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by vendakka 3451 days ago
I wasn't very clear. A hypothetical conn.Read(w Writer) would call Write on w instead of filling a byte array. Write in turn allocates as needed. WriterTo is a cleaner way of doing this.
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> A hypothetical conn.Read(w Writer) would call Write on w instead of filling a byte array.

Yes I understand the purpose — hence suggesting WriterTo which is supposed to do that — I simply noted that conn.Read(w Writer) would make Conn not extend io.Reader anymore since it takes a buffer.

Ah right.