thanks for the suggestion Burak and Jake, however embedding won't do for the same reason as aliasing - it allows copying by value, which i want to prevent (in my real use case foo.bar is a C pointer).
https://play.golang.org/p/4BcOQTGkPiy works, and it should not (f3 := *f2 is a no as it makes copy of f2.bar) On Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 10:07:05 PM UTC, Jake Montgomery wrote: > > 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.
