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		peterfunny on May 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Who is using Go language? "nil pointers" is a tradeoff for you? Block scoping, too?

jesstaa on June 12, 2012 [–]

It's possible to never have nil pointer dereferences. But the tradeoff is constructors and some complicated scoping.

Block scoping is confusing for many people coming from the dynamic languages where scoping is usually function level.

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