[teeray]

It’s the complete lack of magic. What you see in front of you is pretty much exactly what happens. You don’t have to keep a cathedral of language semantic subtleties in your head when reading someone else’s code.

[rochak]

Pointer vs value receivers and named returns have so many gotchas that it is not even funny. Lack of magic my ass.

[teeray]

The way you avoid these are twofold:

1) Use the pointer receiver unless you have a really good reason to do otherwise.

2) Never, ever use named returns. Code can (and should) always be written to not use them.

[ssd532]

Can you elaborate point 2, please?I am wondering how is that related to the issue of pointer and value semantics.

[asylteltine]

Can you name any? I have never seen a “gotcha” because it’s just explicit… it’s not like you are surprised by a pointer.

[kaba0]

Then why don’t we go back to assembly? There is even less magic there, every line is trivial to understand, isn’t it?