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		irrational on July 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go generics may use square brackets [] not parenth... Because they look like normal angle brackets. Unless you are in on the secret, you won’t understand why your code doesn’t work.

thaumasiotes on July 15, 2020 [–]

Easily fixed by using ᑅ ᑀ, ᕙ ᕗ, or ᗕ ᗒ.

jiggawatts on July 15, 2020 | | [–]

For some values of "easily" and "fixed".

ed25519FUUU on July 15, 2020 | | [–]

Maybe it’s just at the companies I’ve worked at, but replacement vars are usually double underscores:

    Here is __REPLACE__ var.

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