On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 11:42 PM Robert Engels <reng...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> I don’t think that represents the problem fairly. In the non interface > case I know I can’t accept a copy so I would declare the method as taking a > pointer to the struct. > How methods are declared should, in general, not be a matter of whether or not they are assigned to an interface, but to whether or not they need a pointer. Again: Your code is incorrect without interfaces <https://play.golang.org/p/WpIzYYLOKn->. The problem doesn't happen when you put that value into an interface - it happens when you pass a copy of it and expect it to refer to the original. Interfaces are just one way to create such a copy, but they do not matter for the correctness of this code and for whether or not that method needs a pointer receiver (it does). But again, to be clear: I'm not saying problems like this *never* happen and I'm not even saying that interfaces may obscure it in some cases. Just that a) the root cause here is that your method really needs to take a pointer-receiver, interfaces or not and b) that it seems very much an overstatement to me to call this "the most inconsistent and obtuse aspect of the Go language". With interfaces this is lost - as the interface is implicitly a pointer > Well, it seems a bad idea to say that interfaces are implicitly pointers then. That seems to indicate that Rob's original phrasing is indeed an important clarification - the language behaves as if the value contained in them is copied when the interface value is copied. It seems the confusion here is, that you assume it's not. And that interfaces act as a pointers, when they don't. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAEkBMfFBaCPtfm9CczQT8uAEXVypAO0tteCUQQQ%2BZKWFv7Gy%3DA%40mail.gmail.com.
