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		asp_hornet on Feb 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years No, you’ve achieved an illusion of that as now your spending hours wasted on discovering where a developer forgot to call NewUsername and instead called Username{“broken”}. I cant see the value in this abstraction in Go.

iampims on Feb 10, 2024 [–]

They can’t because value is not exported. They must use the NewUsername function, which forces the validation.

In my opinion, this pattern breaks when the validation must return an error and everything becomes very verbose.

asp_hornet on Feb 10, 2024 | [–]

Oh, thats true about it being unexported. I hadn’t considered that.

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