On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 1:35 PM, dc0d <kaveh.shahbaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In Go there is no way to pass a reference to an instance of the > container/enclosing type, to a function of an embedded type. What work > around do you use for this? Any idiomatic Go way? > > Currently I model the shared functionality using an interface. Then the > implementation is another struct, which takes a pointer to the container > type and implements that interface - one could just implement the interface > directly. But this is done for convenience and grouping the similar > functionality. This implementation struct will then gets embedded inside the > container/enclosing type.
Typically in Go this is the wrong question. Wanting to pass a reference to the enclosing type to a method of an embedded type is often a symptom of trying to write C++ in Go. Better to describe the whole problem, and see if people can suggest a different approach that is more Go-like. Ian -- 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.
