Since Go does not allow addressing a constant, and literal primitives are considered constants in this regard, it makes some code long-winded and noisy. I use this a lot in unit tests to keep them small and on-topic, but it's generally useful for areas of code where terseness is preferred over idiomatic grammar. I was annoyed, so I created this package.
Replace unnecessarily long code like the following:
var result *string
// ... do stuff
foo := "bar"
result = &foo
With this:
var result *string
// ... do stuff
result := pval.String("bar")
It's even worse if you happen to need a slice of pointers. Replace this eyesore:
var result []*string
// ... do stuff
foo1 := "bar1"
foo2 := "bar2"
foo3 := "bar3"
foo4 := "bar4"
result = append(result, &foo1, &foo2, &foo3, &foo4)
With this (the plural version):
var result []*string
// ... do stuff
result := pval.Strings("bar1", "bar2", "bar3", "bar4")
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