On: Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go

[Noumenon72]

Why is it "q Query"?

[bbbobbb → Noumenon72]

That the "receiver" identifier. You can think of it as "this" or "self" in other languages -> reference to the current "instance" within the method.

https://gobyexample.com/methods

[ovao → Noumenon72]

In Go, the type follows the identifier. To use a single letter or short sequence of letters is idiomatic Go for short-lived identifiers or ‘quintessential’ identifiers.

[dewey → Noumenon72]

q of type Query. So in the function you can access the fields on q (Where you call the function on) via q.FieldName. If you do it with a pointer receiver (q *Query) like explained here (https://tour.golang.org/methods/4) you can directly manipulate the object, not the copy like in this example.