I'm a newbie to Go having used C and C++ in the past and I'm puzzled about
something I've just seen.
In the following code getEmployee returns a pointer to a struct. The return
value is then dereferenced. This code compiles and runs fine:
package main
type employee struct {
ID int
name string
}
var dilbert employee
func main() {
getEmployee().name = "dilbert"
}
func getEmployee() *employee {
return &dilbert
}
However if I modify getEmployee as follows, I get a compilation error:
func getEmployee() employee {
return dilbert
}
The error is: cannot assign to getEmployee().name
I assume that it revolves around "assignability" but I'm struggling to
understand why.
Can anyone tell me why this is?
TIA,
Orson
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