Parent struct methods get the receiver of parent, and cannot refer to child.
Try https://play.golang.org/p/fi3T_Z95O8


On Monday, January 30, 2017 at 9:31:15 PM UTC+5:30, jul.s...@gmail.com 
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Where I work, we are currently experimenting with golang in order to 
> migrate our existing Perl codebase to golang.
>
> Although Perl isn't a pure OO language, it allows for a lot of the OO 
> patterns to be used. One of the patterns we do use is where a superclass 
> method wraps a series of call to other methods that can be overloaded by 
> subclasses.
>
> Here is an example of what I mean:
> https://goo.gl/hTnUI4
>
> Now, I've tried to apply the same principle in golang but failed as the 
> method attack isn't called on the right type:
> https://play.golang.org/p/ZHhaQhSrms
>
> I've scratched my head for a bit to find a solution for this, and the idea 
> I found was to wrap the prep+attack call in a function that isn't tied to 
> any of the two structs
> https://play.golang.org/p/7nK8xEV5rj
>
> The example above creates the behaviour I initially expected but I don't 
> find its as clean as when using the classic OO pattern.
>
> Now my question is, how do people usually translate this classic OO 
> pattern into golang other than the way I found ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> - Julien
>

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