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Reflection and meta programming

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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How to Use Struct Tags in Go

In Go, you can put a string after a field name in a struct and that string can be parsed at runtime. You can also tell it to emit the field if it's empty. So I created this form package that used struct tags. It was kind of me just looking at the problem being like is there a way to handle this? And the struct tags were used for things like if you needed to change the name.

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