Go’s best-kept secret: executable examples

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There's also Testable Examples in Go from the official Go blog.

I have not seen this before. Thanks for sharing. Do you know any projects that utilize this, so I can see an example implementation of this?

Do you know any projects that utilize this, so I can see an example implementation of this?

The sort package in the standard library uses testable examples (source code).

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func Echo doc Example

(and many more)

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The go stdlib uses it a lot. For example, the strings package