alexsteele/deref

pointers -> builtin types with no nil-checking

deref

Provides convenience functions to extract the value from a pointer, returning the appropriate zero value if the pointer is nil.

Example:

package main

import (
        "fmt"

        "github.com/AlexSteele/deref"
)

func main() {
        var i *int
        fmt.Println(deref.Int(i)) // Prints '0'
}