outofphase

outofphase

Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go: module initialization info wrong (Preface page xxiv)

The book states “Upon initializing a new module, Go creates a file go.mod in the root of your
module directory” but, at least in Go 1.20, that is not true. It is created in the current working directory.

$ go help mod init
usage: go mod init [module-path]

Init initializes and writes a new go.mod file in the current directory, in
effect creating a new module rooted at the current directory. The go.mod file
must not already exist.

This means that the example of creating a nested directory, initializing it and then showing the contexts of the go.mod work, but the wrong directory has been initialized with the new go.mod file.

First Post!

rgerardi

rgerardi

Author of Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go

Hello @outofphase . Thank you for your comment. You’re right and the text is missing the direction to switch into the newly created directory before initializing the module.

cd  $HOME/pragprog.com/rggo/firstProgram/wc

I’ll update it for the next version.

Thanks,
Ricardo

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