That also means anyone else can call Lock() and Unlock() on your type. This is often not what you want, unless your type *is* a kind of lock (as opposed to *uses* a lock).
On 18 May 2018, at 23:45, matthewju...@gmail.com<mailto:matthewju...@gmail.com> wrote: By embedding I meant this: type ServiceQProperties struct { ... sync.Mutex } which allows you to call p.Lock() instead of p.REMutex.Lock(). It’s just a personal preference that I was happy about when I learned about it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.