In Go is naming the receiver variable 'self' misleading or good practice?

Question

I have seen a fair amount of blogs & videos on Go and as far as I recall, none of the authors use \'self\' or \'this\' for the receiver variable when writing methods. H

Answer 1

The Go wiki recommends not using terms like this or self and instead using abbreviations derived from the type name: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#receiver-names