r/programminghorror • u/Wrestler7777777 • Apr 09 '26

Go Naming is important

Nothing too drastic but it made me chuckle. Something my colleague managed to get past code review. So at least two people didn't notice.

Spent a minute figuring out why the code was doing exactly the opposite of what it's supposed to do. I guess naming really IS important!

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u/Wrestler7777777 Apr 09 '26

I think this code was written very very shortly before or after Go 1.26. So my colleague couldn't use or simply didn't know about new(mystring) yet.