On Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 4:31:10 PM UTC-5, Deomid Ryabkov wrote: > > Why can't Go resolve methods declared on the pointer receiver of the > destination type? > Because that is not how the language was designed. (I'm too busy to look up the spec here, but it is in there.)
> > consider: > > [SNIP] > > (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. > > You could try using an embedded type to have Foo "inherit" methods from *foo, like this - https://play.golang.org/p/WvNj5GUjsxe. Good Luck -- 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.
