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Go subtleties

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username223 ◴[] No.45667467[source]
Go has certainly come a long ways from its initial mission to be a simple language for Rob Pike's simple coworkers.

    type User struct {
        Name     string `json:"name"`
        Password string `json:"-"`
        Email    string `json:"email"`
    }
So you can specify how to serialize a struct in json using raw string literals containing arbitrary metadata. And json:"X" means to serialize it to X, except the special value "-" means "omit this one," except "-," means that its name is "-". Got it.
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1. gethly ◴[] No.45672640[source]
Annotations have been part of programming for ages. This is nothing new or out of the ordinary functionality.