The "name" parameter was originally a workaround for the fact that function
pointers in Go never compare equal to each other (unless they are both nil).
Unfortunately, this presents a pretty terrible interface to the end programmer,
since they'll probably end up stuttering something like:
mux.Use("MyMiddleware", MyMiddleware)
Luckily, I found a workaround for doing function pointer equality (it doesn't
even require "unsafe"!), so we can get rid of the name parameter for good.
They say that every programmer builds a web framework at some point. This one is
mine.
The basic idea behind this one is that I wanted a Sinatra for Go, and I couldn't
find one anywhere. Furthermore, net/http is in many ways really close to what I
want out of a Sinatra-in-Go, and many of the frameworks I did find seemed to
reinvent too much, or were incompatible with net/http in weird ways, or used too
much questionable reflection magic. So long story short, I wrote my own.
This implementation is only half-baked, and among other things it's missing a
whole lot of tests.
Carl Jackson