Code reviewMediumcr-g111

Subject EncodingLevel Mid–Senior~25 minCommon in Code quality & review interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Review this Go handler that truncates a username to a max length.

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Code to reviewgo

1func truncate(name string, max int) string {2    if len(name) <= max {3        return name4    }5    return name[:max]6}7 8// truncate("caf\u00e9résumé", 4)

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