Foo is declared as a new type, and no methods are declared on that that
type. If you had declared:
type Foo = *Foo
it would have been a different matter.
On Sun, 24 Feb 2019, 10:30 pm , <roj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why can't Go resolve methods declared on the pointer receiver of the
> destination type?
>
> consider:
>
> type foo struct{
> bar int
> }
>
> type Foo *foo
>
> func (f *foo) GetBar() int {
> return f.bar
> }
>
> func NewFoo(bar int) Foo {
> return &foo{bar: bar}
> }
>
> func main() {
> f1 := &foo{bar: 123}
> fmt.Printf("%d\n", f1.GetBar())
> f2 := NewFoo(456)
> fmt.Printf("%d\n", f2.GetBar())
> }
>
>
> (playground link: https://play.golang.org/p/v0f9pYaTJAa )
>
> it fails to compile with "prog.go:25:23: f2.GetBar undefined (type Foo has
> no field or method GetBar)" but it's not clear to me, why Foo doesn't get
> pointer methods from *foo.
>
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