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slicedbrandy on March 15, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go 1.18

Now time to update interface{} usage and shift to any.

  $ gofmt -r 'interface{} -> any' -l **/*.go

Replace -l with -w to write.

eatonphil on March 15, 2022 | [–]

Is there an actual difference between these or is it just aesthetic? (and shorter)

xiaq on March 15, 2022 | | [–]

any is an alias of interface{}, so purely aesthetic.

rpk788 on March 15, 2022 | [–]

well there goes my Hacktoberfest idea

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