go to interfaces {} is not a pointer, though it looks like a pointer.
When the interface {} and its type, when values are nil, the value was nil ==
Consider the following program
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
var data *byte
var in interface{}
fmt.Println(data,data == nil) //prints: <nil> true
fmt.Println(in,in == nil) //prints: <nil> true
in = data
fmt.Println(in,in == nil) //prints: <nil> false
//'data' is 'nil', but 'in' is not 'nil'
}
The above is an example of that.
The following are problems that may be encountered in the development of
error Demonstration:
import "fmt"
func main() {
doit := func(arg int) interface{} {
var result *struct{} = nil
if(arg > 0) {
result = &struct{}{}
}
return result
}
if res := doit(-1); res != nil {
fmt.Println("good result:",res) //prints: good result: <nil>
//'res' is not 'nil', but its value is 'nil'
}
}
Correct demonstration:
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
doit := func(arg int) interface{} {
var result *struct{} = nil
if(arg > 0) {
result = &struct{}{}
} else {
return nil //return an explicit 'nil'
}
return result
}
if res := doit(-1); res != nil {
fmt.Println("good result:",res)
} else {
fmt.Println("bad result (res is nil)") //here as expected
}
}
I see a wrong use case
func Foo() error {
var err *os.PathError = nil
// …
return err
}
func main() {
err := Foo()
fmt.Println(err) // <nil>
fmt.Println(err == nil) // false
}
Reproduced in: https: //www.jianshu.com/p/cc111876ac83