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"ok" considered harmful?

“Just like there’s an unwritten law that every error variable in Go must be named err, there’s an unwritten law that every map existence variable in Go must be named ok.”

But Zach thinks we can, and should, look at doing better.

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-05-10-ok-considered-harmful/
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