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Re:How to start a Go project in 2023 by 0zemp2c on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @02:43PM (#36048904)
> Loop variables with closures

indeed a brutal footgun but will be fixed soon

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Re:How to start a Go project in 2023 by sapiogram on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @04:14PM (#36050232)
Have they actually agreed on how to fix this now?
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Re:How to start a Go project in 2023 by typical182 on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @09:23PM (#36052896)
Effectively yes.

There’s a concrete proposal from the core Go team (along with an available experimental implementation) that seems to be on track for acceptance:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/60078

It’s going through the official proposal process, which is how language changes happen in Go.

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