title: assign a string type golang
body: <p>I'm having a hard time assigned a string to a type string. So I have this type:</p>
  
  <pre><code>type Username string
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I then have a function that returns a string</p>
  
  <p>What I'm trying to do is set username to that returned string:</p>
  
  <pre><code>u := &amp;Username{returnedString}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I also tried</p>
  
  <pre><code>var u Username
  u = returnedString
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I always get an error. </p>