Nicolas Martyanoff on Nostr: I just got bit by a common bug in #Go. encoding/json accepts the null JSON value for ...
I just got bit by a common bug in #Go. encoding/json accepts the null JSON value for a slice. As a result, [] is decoded to an empty slice and null to a nil slice. And while both can be used as a zero-length slice, only one of them will be considered equal to nil. Inconsistent.
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