Hello all,
I am an experienced programmer, but new to golang. As someone who has produced a lot of code in Java, I come from a heavily object oriented mindset. I think that golang has helped me to code in new ways, and more often than not, I find myself producing more straightforward code, which is good for some reasons. However, one thing that I really miss is the “protected” visibility as we can find in Java.
When I am creating a new go module, I find myself forced to make types and functions public (uppercase initial letter) so that I can do a better job at organizing my code and use functions across packages within the module. I do not want to make them visible to the module users, though.
As an example, if my module has to handle tokens, I want it to have a public function like StoreToken(token string). In another package inside the module I may want to have a function WriteTokenToDB(token string), but I don’t want this function to be visible to the module user, because it is part of the internal architecture of my module and I don’t want outside users to use it, because it makes no sense!
One way of solving it would be to put everything inside the same package, but then the code would be a complete mess…
Any advices?