In Go is naming the receiver variable 'self' misleading or good practice?

Question

I have seen a fair amount of blogs & videos on Go and as far as I recall, none of the authors use 'self' or 'this' for the receiver variable when writing methods. However there seems to be a number of questions on stack overflow that do this, and it got me thinking about if this is misleading to name the variable 'self'?

Reading the Spec for Method Sets does not provide any evidence either way (in my interpretation).

I seem to recall finding somewhere that it was not really a self pointer, can anyone list evidence or provide reasoning either way, and if any problems/traps that might occur from thinking of it as 'self'?

A quick example:

type MyStruct struct {
    Name string
} 

Which method is more appropriate, or both?

func (m *MyStruct) MyMethod() error {
    // do something useful
}

or

func (self *MyStruct) MyMethod() error {
    // do something useful
}

Answer 1

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