Constructors in Go

Question

I have a struct and I would like it to be initialised with some sensible default values.

Typically, the thing to do here is to use a constructor but since go isn\'t

Answer 1

Golang is not OOP language in its official documents. All fields of Golang struct has a determined value(not like c/c++), so constructor function is not so necessary as cpp. If you need assign some fields some special values, use factory functions. Golang's community suggest New.. pattern names.