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Golang Tips & Tricks #4 - internal folders
Buy me a coffeeWhile developing a library, we create a directory structure to keep the code organized. However, some exported functions or struct should not be used by users of the library. The achieve that, call the package internal.
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├── bar
│ ├── bar.go
│ └── internal
│ └── foobar.go
├── internal
│ └── foo.go
└── main.go
In the example above, the foo.go can be included only in the main.go. What’s more, only the bar.go is able to include the foobar.go file. It means, that only the direct parent of the internal package is allowed to use it’s internals.
Use this feature reasonably!
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